Oct 072020
Bad ideas are universal. Witness “Ronan Point,” a remarkable British example of housing done wrong. Like Cabrini Green and Pruitt-Igoe, this was an idea for stacking as many people as possible as cheaply as possible, with the result that workmanship was criminally shoddy. Humans are not meant to be packed into dense little areas, as recent examples of American cities bursting into flames attest.
Lesson: if your city is overcrowded, instead of densepacking people look for ways to offload people. For starters: don’t import masses that not only you don;t need, but that you cannot afford.