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Why Were High-Rise Public Housing Projects Built in the First Place?
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Why Were High-Rise Public Housing Projects Built in the First Place?

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Feb 27, 2024
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Why Were High-Rise Public Housing Projects Built in the First Place?
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City Beautiful, a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning, posted:

“In the spring of 2007, the Chicago Housing Authority demolished the last of the 28 buildings in the Robert Taylor Homes housing project. Robert Taylor Homes is one of several high-profile housing project demolitions, from St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe to…

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