urbanization of rural areas, it's not like they're knocking down the projects for them
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Wtf are you talking about do you know how much was destroyed in U.S. cities from the 20s until the 70s The projects were themselves a product of this movement, the whole aim was to give poor people in cities lawns
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I'm talking about two diff things here: - suburbanization, which--in older cities at least--was about replacing urban building patterns with more spread-out, low density ones, with the difference in population relocating to fringes (so yes, it did *also* urbanize the country)
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- projects, where a dense low-rise neighborhood would be demolished and replaced with subsidized high-rises with lots of lawn between them (hence "give the poor urbanites a lawn")
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An observer at the time could be forgiven for assuming that the planners and officials sincerely believed that access to grass was a panacea for social, economic, and health woes
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As far as the projects went, being forcibly moved into a new dwelling was something that people might've been able to get over--but while cities tried to make one new housing unit for each one lost, there was no such consideration for small businesses, and that blow was fatal
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There was an entire movement from the late 1800s until...well, it's still kinda ongoing...which was explicitly about ruralizing cities. Frank Lloyd Wright was a big fan, see "broadacre city"
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