Abstract

That is obviously for experts, irrespective of status or quality, high-rise housing is here to stay. No country is in a position to ignore or discard this conspicuous legacy of the post-war and mass housing period. Nevertheless, high-rise residential buildings are still less widespread, than offices. According to the author, there are certain problems and reasons for limitation of high-rise construction in the housing sector. The author summarizes successful experience of high-rise housing construction in the world and considers some social-and-economic prerequisites of its development in the modern city. These concrete examples, given in article, prove that the existing problems are being solved. The most effective option of construction is the combination of inhabited and commercial chambers in the high-rise building and also the creation of specific infrastructure. In that case housing high-rise estates will promote the increase in investment attractiveness and investment activity in the district and in the city as whole.

Highlights

  • That was construction of high-rise buildings for office purposes to begin at first

  • Formal definitions of high-rise housing vary between countries

  • The matter is that construction of such residential buildings was always based first of all not on economic reasons

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Introduction

That was construction of high-rise buildings for office purposes to begin at first. Further the turn of high-rise housing came. Formal definitions of high-rise housing vary between countries. Many authors have focused on housing from the post-war period, which requires a lift to reach the upper floors. This means high-rise is a block with a minimum of five storeys and a lift. Modern high-rise housing consist of tower (skyscraper) or point blocks reaching twenty or more storeys, or slab blocks providing hundreds of metres of separate dwellings connected by lengthy internal or external corridors. Modern high-rise housing consist of tower (skyscraper) or point blocks reaching twenty or more storeys, or slab blocks providing hundreds of metres of separate dwellings connected by lengthy internal or external corridors. [1]

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