"This will be a city designed to never grow old". BUT instead they just razed all of the density and left a sea of abandoned parking lots that stagnated for half a century. Looking back the old footage reminds of Detroit in its heyday compared to the ruined ghost town currently there that is only recently making baby-steps back in the right direction. What a nightmarish disaster!
It didn't work at all. They just bulldozed everything they didn't approve of and left blocks of empty asphalt, never constructing their fanciful brutalist nightmare they deemed the cure for the "tumors" of blight.
"This will be a city designed to never grow old".
BUT instead they just razed all of the density and left a sea of abandoned parking lots that stagnated for half a century. Looking back the old footage reminds of Detroit in its heyday compared to the ruined ghost town currently there that is only recently making baby-steps back in the right direction. What a nightmarish disaster!
The city can make progress if they have good transit and walkable streets instead of ugly skyscrapers and parking lots
SO did it work?
yes
It didn't work at all. They just bulldozed everything they didn't approve of and left blocks of empty asphalt, never constructing their fanciful brutalist nightmare they deemed the cure for the "tumors" of blight.
@@SquidProQuo80 I guess when it came to spending money, their nerve ran out.
Nope! It flopped but we still have the Mayrid Gardens, New Buildings, and the Mayrid Building