Architects love to debate whether architecture was or wasn’t to blame for the ‘failure’ of these estates as social and economic platforms, but the reality is that the estates failed long before any architects were involved
A Right to Regenerate
Alastair Parvin
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This reminds me a lot of the Pruitt-Igoe debate which is widely regarded as a failure on the part of modern architecture while ignoring the systematic defunding of american public housing as well as issues of structural racism in St.Louis.