>>1741833>>1742249It's easy to blame it on the demographics when in reality every failed ginormous Corb' style housing project of the '60s was an amalgamation of grand futuristic visions, architectural engineers being treated as social engineers, and lack of centralized management and instead different agencies and departments being responsible for different aspects of the projects and shifting blame between them. Similarly to huge highways reaching downtowns, these undertakings simply weren't seen as potentially faulty, there was too much optimism and drive in the urban planning movement at the time.
