Ghettos in the sky, high-rise residential architecture
What are some examples of residential high-rises in your city? I'm curious to see what kind of apartment architecture there is around the world. Stuff like "ghettos in the sky" and other buildings like that. Just post your pics and share.
These are some examples from my city, Minneapolis:
In San Francisco they've pretty much torn down (and rebuilt in lowrise mode) or repurposed all the highrise public housing. The one remaining building that comes to mind was converted to senior housing.
I'm very surprised Minneapolis has this much left.
Co-op City, Bronx, New York
This is a massive apartment project in the Bronx providing housing for more then 55 thousand people
Image from http://home.comcast.net/~coopcity/pictures/my_pix.html ( This promotional photo was obtained from Riverbay Corporation around 1990.)
Chicago has couple
Cabrini-Green
ABLA
Robert Taylor Homes
cabrini, alba, and robert taylor have all been largely ripped down by this point, where have you been?
as for this thread title, it seems weird because not all highrise architecture is subsidized public housing, in fact in many cities high rise living can be very upper class stuff, like manahttan's upper east side or chicago's gold coast. there is much, MUCH more to high rise residential architecture than just public housing projects. what about all of the hundreds of luxury condo towers that have sprouted up in american city centers from coast to coast over the past decade?
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Last edited by Steely Dan; Jan 29, 2009 at 8:38 PM.
Commie blocks make up a large component of the skylines in many Canadian cities.
Hamilton is full of them, but they aren't necessarily "ghetto":
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Co-op City isn't a project. It's a middle-income coop, with a long waiting list. Now it's definitely a "commieblock"; but it isn't public or low-income housing.
And, as other commentators have stated, commieblocks are not necessarily low-income housing. There are tons of super-expensive market-rate commieblocks in Manhattan, for example.
Sweden is the commieblock "capital" of Western Europe considering its small population. They probably built as many as Soviet did per capita - often on the expense of old buildings. Whole blocks of medieval architecture was demolished in the centre of many cities to build large scale concrete "cities in cities".
This is why most cities in Sweden are very dull. In the big three - Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö - most commieblocks were built in the outskirts though. I'd say the majority of the population in the big cities live in commieblocks - or at least it is the most common form of housing (Swede could correct me on this).
Just because it's in India hardly makes it a ghetto. Those are quite high-class apartments by Indian standards. Backup power, pool, parking spaces, 24-hour security, continuous water supply. I haven't been in these, but I've been in similar ones in several cities in China and they'd pass for middle class housing anywhere in Southern Europe and are upper-middle class in much the rest of the world.
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