It is amazing to look at the clusters around the projects. What bad social planning.
I think the key point is the lacking of much to do with the last word...
Of course, the interests of the persons moved never entered into consideration. [/hyperbole, but not as much hyperbole as I would like]
In terms of actual outcomes yes (q.v. also Patrick1's last post), but in terms of
intentions I don't think this is right at all. The projects were created by New Deal/Great Society liberals who really thought they were improving over the crumbling old crowded housing in which the poor had lived. (Federal public housing construction was then essentially brought to a halt by Nixon). It's hard for us now to get into the mindset of the period, but it was an age in which shiny new things and driving seemed futuristic and progressive and Jane Jacobs-like considerations of the intangible benefits of sidewalks, community spirit etc. were pretty much off the radar.
