Systematized links. A British architectural type for a post-war residential revival

Due to the large housing shortage that emerged in the United Kingdom after the Second World War, a new construction system would facilitate the expansion of an architectural type characterized by linear blocks connected by bridges, as an extension of the blocks elevated levels. Street life in the sky burst into the housing panorama as the solution for the future, capable of combining the experiential dynamics of the garden city with the high- density concept. However, several construction, design and demographic problems would lead to the collapse of cohabitation in these systematized links, which would lead to their early demolition or their involvement in challenging rehabilitation processes. Their greatest virtue would turn, over time, into their greatest fragility.