Densification

I missed this in the budget - not surprising as I admit to paying little attention over and above what is is likely to have an immediate effect on me and mine. However, this push for densification as reported in Building 4 Change has some merits - if it can be managed properly. And there's the rub. We all know what a disaster much of the high rise building in the second half of the last century has been. Planners somehow manage to forget human and social elements and err on the side of a soulless close-packing model. This has put me in mind of the vibrant communities that developed around Victorian working-people's terraces. Is this a model to reconsider - low rise but cheek-by-jowl?