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You should look up how the idea of “towers in a park” actually played out when implemented. It’s not a new concept.
by throwaway316943 6y ago
You should look up how the idea of “towers in a park” actually played out when implemented. It’s not a new concept.
- stallmanite 6y agoCabrini Green definitely comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes
- 082349872349872 6y agoMaybe the boosters of "towers in a park" should have taken a page from the legend of Parmentier, and made them exclusive things one couldn't get an apartment in without knowing someone who knew someone, or at least paying a massive "finder's fee" to some agency? (Parmentier lived at a time before the pommes frites, when only pigs, prisoners, and people in poor faraway countries ate potatoes. The story goes that he set up a fancy potato field, complete with armed guards, but because they weren't guarded at night, the same people who earlier wouldn't dare eat a potato came to steal them under cover of darkness to grow themselves.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier#Potato_publicity_stunts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier#Po... Caveat: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Parmentier https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Parmentier says it's fake news. Parmentier really did wish to guard his research patches.