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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I've been thinking a lot lately about how the terrible design of public housing was such a huge factor of why it failed in the U.S.
This is a pretty terrible built environment that is located in a neighborhood that looks mostly like this. I can't think of any good reason why the public housing was designed the way they did it, other than it just being someone's idea of what housing should look like instead of following the successful development patterns that already existed.
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There are other designs of public housing throughout the US that are just as bad (if not worse). There are 2 storey projects in CA and FL for example.
The main issue is the residents who do not respect the environment they live in... Look at all those dilapidated beautiful private homes in Detroit or rowhomes in Baltimore.
The reason why the tower-in-the-park projects are the way they are is:
1. At the time they were built, this was a popular urban design among the urban planners, not just in the US but in Europe as well. It was considered very modern and futuristic. Blowing up art deco and putting up brutalist boxes was in vogue.
2. It is also cheaper to build mass government housing that way.
Just an example of an equally failed projects with a different built form. This one was in New Orleans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire...e_Projects.JPG