For the love of God, BRTD. You do realize that one of the main reasons those North Dakotans and assorted suburbanites across the country have/had such a fearful view of city life was precisely because of Cabrini-Green and similar disasters?
This line of argument is– and here I am speaking especially as a committed urbanist and a fellow refugee from the burbs– offensively counterproductive. Please never make it again, thanks.
Pruitt-Igoe ftw!
The Riverside Plaza apartments in Minneapolis were a 2nd generation project of publicly subsidized housing that also dealt with decay and decline...but successfully turned around to become a first stop for immigrant familes arriving mainly from Somalia now but also Vietnam in the past. The nickname has thus changed from the 'crack stacks' back in the harrowing days of Murderapolis in the early 90s to 'little Somalia' in a neighborhood that today is far safer and more vibrant.
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