The History of the Failed Habitat Puerto Rico | Architecture Stories

In the hills above San Juan, Puerto Rico lies the remains of a failed dream-a dream to redefine urban living. The project was known as Habitat Puerto Rico. It was the ambitious follow up to Moshe Safdie's original Habitat 67. Unfortunately, it never came to be. But while this version of Habitat failed, was the entire vision of Habitat a failure? Let's explore the history of the Habitat concept.
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[@furripupau]

Some feedback, if you want it: your introduction should give us some basic details before heading into the history. Where exactly is this structure? When was it made? Why is it abandoned (?) now? The history of how we got "here" becomes a little tedious when we don't know when, where, and what "here" is. Eight minutes in, I stopped and went back to the beginning because I thought I was missing something.

[@elineeugenie5224]

Hmm beehives... Cool