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@Skülly
I have never lived in a brutalist/highrise environment. I don't ever want to. Even the 'well maintained' ones like Barbican or Trellick I understand is now hip and is being looked after, or that place in Bloomsbury that was crumbling is now Des Res, they're just not nice places to be. I have spent a lot of time in the Barbican, and even that shining example of how communal spaces could be OK, and how buildings that might get concrete cancer can be maintained well, still is a soulless, alienating, antisocial place, full of tight lipped snobs who can hardly get eye contact let alone greet you.
The other end of the spectrum, places like the North Hull Estates (where in the late 80s 50% of Hull's population were crammed into an outlying, isolated area that was only 10% of the space of the city), and places around Bow and all over British inner cities, will one day be seen to be a crime against humanity.
I'm with the 'reactionary'.