| Comment | Nobody on this sub would choose to live in those tenements as they were.
It's possible that they could have been renovated as many have been elsewhere, but some were just thrown up as slum housing and were very poor. (Both in terms of structural soundness and general liveability)
The neighbourhood might have remained bustling if the planners had followed the existing street pattern, but the prevailing thinking at the time was for lower-density development like we see here.
I suspect today's planners are making plenty decisions that will get an equal amount of criticism in 50yrs time. |
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