I live in the most infamous "ghetto" of our entire country and it's not even that bad. However when I look at pictures of your average working class british, french or american suburb I can see that they are not truely 1st world
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What on Earth were they thinking?
It's almost endearing in a way to imagine these architects in the 1960s optimistically designing these monstrous housing projects which then swiftly became absolute hellholes
>>214065289
the problem is that you run out of money and cannot maintain it
similar buildings in switzerland look ok. not inspiring but not nearly as depressing
>>214065837 >on the outskirts
This makes it even grimmer because then you get physical isolation which exacerbates the social problems even more. The grimmest estates are always the ones set apart from the city centre