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I kinda disagree, a little bit. You can live happily in a big housing project, as long as some basics are there. No noise, not too dense, some green spaces and
by agumonkey 5y ago
I kinda disagree, a little bit. You can live happily in a big housing project, as long as some basics are there. No noise, not too dense, some green spaces and also a fair owner. Lots of buildings failed because owners stopped caring, so everything rot, and people here didn't help either. Some of my family lived in these and it felt ok enough. Some other projects 500m for them became no-go zones. Quite surprising.
That said I'm not pro big-structures[0], I understand it spoils the area too much. Near my town, an ex no-go zone has been replaced by smaller buildings, that was enough to regrow a peacefulness that left for 30 years. It's walkable, the woods nearby are walkable, almost shocking.
[0] even though, I still love them for some reasons
- trgn 5y agotbf, I do agree with you. For sake of argument, "big housing project", is just another name for "big apartment building". And I agree that many places do "big apartment building" quite well. But "big apartment building" only works well in a big thriving city, within its existing fabric. Not as in, let's raze the city, and put a big building in this new empty space. And I think Le Corbusier was explicitly about the latter.