Tony Chambers: the magazine editor’s transformative journey from a Liverpool terrace to the Barbican penthouse of his dreams
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The Prospect Refuge Theory
In the 70s a geographer called Jay Appleton came up with this theory that we evolved on the African savannah and at that time to ensure survival we needed places of Prospect. And actually if you apply that to our current living spaces, I think the same things sort of still bring truth. So in here you've got all this light coming in and you say it's really high, you feel very open. You've even got a view over water so you can see where water source is - because you can go and barbecue a duck. And then you've got these very refuse like sleeping spaces that are actually, they're not usually like, oh they're quite cellulose and they
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