Rebecca Solnit on San Francisco

[Prashant Kumar]

Take this as the timid question it is, David (M.), but how does one achieve
high density urban areas without creating Pruitt Igoe like hellholes?

In Sydney we have a community housing building modelled after Le Corbusier,
but instead of parks, car parks. The Northcott building

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/arts/public-housing-private-hell/story-e6frg8n6-1111112988132


Needless to say it became a concrete slab of despair and social
distinction. (I do agree with your larger point; I think Sydney for example
would be much the poorer without the contrast high density allows. Where I
was born in New Zealand has become a horrible stretch of motorways and mall
complexes, the kind with attached buildings and surrounded by a sea of car
parks.)

P.

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