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To follow up on A four-dimensional counterexample?A four-dimensional counterexample?, I am probably being dense, but are there examples of spaces which are homotopy equivalent to bundles of surfaces over surfaces (or three-manifolds over the circle, or circle over three-manifold) and yet are not such. Same question if you change "bundle" to "product". In Hillman's book

he seems very careful to sidestep this question and talk about homotopy equivalence only...

I am interested primarily in spaces where the fiber and the base are $K(\pi, 1)$ spaces (so not spheres) and are oriented (if that makes any difference).

To follow up on A four-dimensional counterexample?, I am probably being dense, but are there examples of spaces which are homotopy equivalent to bundles of surfaces over surfaces (or three-manifolds over the circle, or circle over three-manifold) and yet are not such. Same question if you change "bundle" to "product". In Hillman's book

he seems very careful to sidestep this question and talk about homotopy equivalence only...

I am interested primarily in spaces where the fiber and the base are $K(\pi, 1)$ spaces (so not spheres) and are oriented (if that makes any difference).

To follow up on A four-dimensional counterexample?, I am probably being dense, but are there examples of spaces which are homotopy equivalent to bundles of surfaces over surfaces (or three-manifolds over the circle, or circle over three-manifold) and yet are not such. Same question if you change "bundle" to "product". In Hillman's book

he seems very careful to sidestep this question and talk about homotopy equivalence only...

I am interested primarily in spaces where the fiber and the base are $K(\pi, 1)$ spaces (so not spheres) and are oriented (if that makes any difference).

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To follow up on A four-dimensional counterexample?, I am probably being dense, but are there examples of spaces which are homotopy equivalent to bundles of surfaces over surfaces (or three-manifolds over the circle, or circle over three-manifold) and yet are not such. Same question if you change "bundle" to "product". In Hillman's book

he seems very careful to sidestep this question and talk about homotopy equivalence only...

I am interested primarily in spaces where the fiber and the base are $K(\pi, 1)$ spaces (so not spheres) and are oriented (if that makes any difference).