>>2173491The Soviets had a nice urban planning design from the mid 50s to the late 70s, squared apartment blocks containing recreational parks seems like a pretty good idea if you want to break the monotony of grey buildings whilst keeping urban sprawl dense. Of course nowadays it looks shit because they haven't been maintained at all, but short of incompetent maintenance it's a pretty good choice.
When they're not maintained they look ugly though. The paint they used was pretty cheap so your typical vision of a commieblock is a grey decrepit thing rather than an apartment block built for socialisation and space efficiency.
None of this will work in the US though. Between drug epidemics, economic instability and race relations you're lucky if these things last a couple months. Plus, the track record for state owned housing maintenance in the US aint ideal, Cabrini-Green being a great example. The only places this sort of planning could even remotely work in is where suburbs are right now, and I don't see anyone giving that up for smaller restrictive living conditions, even if it is more sustainable.