vision of efficient housing for three million people circa 1920

[datasuspect]

[bbernardini]

1. What is this from? nt

[datasuspect]

4. i believe it le corbusier

or some modernist depiction of hell.

here is the realization of that 1920s idealism:

the projects, robert taylor homes in chicago for example:

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Made me think of the Robert Taylor Homes.

God, those always looked like soulless places.

[wildhorses]

2. what is that supposed to be in the right foregound?

n/t

[datasuspect]

5. i think greenspaces

or the 50% safezone outside the chemical toxicity area

[wildhorses]

6. okay --

only 50% --

do i want to ask about the other 50%

[never cry wolf]

3. Ah, Le Corbusier

[Bucky]

7. Good ol centralized, bigger-is-better industrial era thinking

I miss the second wave too! Remember omnibuildings?