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Scaling up council housing would give us a more equal Britain

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By Kunle Barker
| The Architects' Journal Verified
In 1912, an Italian statistician transformed how we measure inequality. Corrado Gini was hardly a mathematical prodigy as a young boy, but at just 28 years old, the work he published became the Gini coefficient. The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale between zero and one. Zero represents complete equality and one complete inequality. Today, the UK’s Gini coefficient is 0.33. In the 1970s it was 0.26, when Britain was at its most equal.
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The Generation Debt report worries me. Is London dying?

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By Kunle Barker
| The Architects' Journal Verified
I was chatting to my eldest daughter recently about university and resisted the temptation to admit that my own choices had very little to do with academic rigour. I initially set my sights on studying engineering at the now-defunct UMIST in Manchester, but in the early ’90s it wasn’t the course content that drew me – it was the city’s legendary music scene and, of course, the Haçienda. In the end, I went to Leeds, and for much the same reason.
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Why Sheffield’s Park Hill estate is a model for our times

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By Kunle Barker
| The Architects' Journal Verified
After the Second World War, the country was shattered. Cities were bombed out, infrastructure crumbling, and housing – already poor – was now in crisis. Many lived in Victorian slums, lacking space, light, heating or indoor plumbing. But there was something else in the air, too. There was a real fear among Britain’s ruling class that revolution could happen here. Churchill ominously warned that the kind of upheaval seen in Bolshevik Russia wasn’t beyond the realms of possibility in post-war Britain.
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