What are suburbs
- 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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ah, I see where I used the term wrong. From a rural perspective "the projects" are big apartments where poor people live, and they all look the same; synonymous with "section 8"
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that's what I meant too, I know towers of poor people are now inseparably associated with "urbanism" but the very concept arose from people trying to ruralize the cities
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