streets in the sky

noun

Architecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.

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nounstreets in the sky pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyArchitecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.

    In the UK, the concept of 'streets in the sky' was first developed by the New Brutalist architects, Alison and Peter Smithson, in their widely published entry for the Corporation of London's Golden Lane Competition (1951).

    2013, Ben Campkin, Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
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