From The Other McCain: The Planners and Their Plans. You should definitely click thru.
Here's the quote.
In 1987, Ronald Reagan famously summarized the result of LBJ’s policy: “In the Sixties, we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.”
This is a reflection on the failed policies around places like Cabrini Green in Chicago.
By the 1990s, the failure of liberal policy was so blatantly obvious that even Democrats did not object when the federal government began demolishing the high-rise public housing projects it had spent so much taxpayer money to build a few decades earlier. Cabrini-Green was a symbol of this failed liberal dream
My favorite image of high-rise public housing, and the utter failure it was, comes is from the 1982 movie Koyaanisqatsi. The section titled "Prophecies" is mostly of the The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, in Saint Louis, just before they were demolished, and the demolition itself.
UPDATE: YouTube, is not allowing this embedded video to be enlarged here. Click the previous link so you can see the video at a reasonable size. You can also click the title in the video box below.
Again you have to go to YouTube to see the video at any reasonable scale. Have they always done this, or is it new?
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see that video, I am amazed at how the buildings remind me of something worthy of an Warsaw Pact country. Housing built by government.
ReplyDeleteFor the immense scale of this project, take a look at the image at this link.
"The Pruitt–Igoe complex was composed of 33 buildings of 11 stories each, located on 57 acres"
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