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Originally Posted by Sprintey

Little story - The old man was a town planner of the 1960s generation and they all marvelled at these new towers. Architects like Le Corbusier cried out that if Paris' slums were not cleared and replaced with these towers, revolution would occur!

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See post 3917, the architect admitted they made a mistake and from the 1980's on they simply purchased existing houses and refitted them for public housing. They also figured that the surrounding community was more likely to support single families doing it tough dispersed rather than 600 families all concentrated in a ghetto.
It was based on the UK public housing model, maximum floor space for minimal money....usually sited near manufacturing localities for the low socio-economic jobs.