re: #213 ggt

Well, he did rip apart older established communities where immigrant populations and lower income populations used as a springboard to more affluent areas, replacing those “slums” with high rise developments. That was seen as a more economical, enlightened, and efficient use of those parcels. Yet, even though you can get more people to live in a given area with more amenities, it destroyed a sense of community there - and those kinds of problems devolved into the drug den culture that took over many of the projects here in NYC and those based on the apartment complex setup elsewhere.

Urban development has come around to a lower density integrated housing scheme - low to mid rises that blend into their surroundings, rather than standing apart. The results have been a much lower crime rate and improved social and economic outcomes.