Streets make communities. Have architects realised at last? | Simon Jenkins

The award of the Stirling prize to Goldsmith Street in Norwich suggests the age of brutalist housing is ending

Wonders never cease. The Royal Institute of British Architects has just given a prize to a street. Not to a vainglorious skyscraper, or an “iconic” bunker museum or a luxury pad in a field, but a living, breathing street. This street is not just a street but a “council street”. Norwich council’s chief executive, Laura McGillivray, claims no higher ambition than that “new social housin...