Architecture and interior design thread

You don't hear anyone discussing the Alton Estate as a perfect social Utopia though do you? Plenty of negative references to the place on tinternet.

Then there's Corbusier designed/inspired type stuff in places like the poor suburbs of Paris (see 'La Haine). I don't think anyone can claim those are a resounding success.

A lot of these buildings were built as a result of the slums after WW2. The idea behind them is genraly very good. Giving people nice views, easy access to aminaties, lots of green space. Unfortunatly, they became slums themselves. Some of them have worked and others have been made to work ( Broadwater_Farm I know Wiki is sometimes (often) wrong but this is pretty impreasive).

There was a massive need in large cities, to provide large-scale social housing. There were some well-meant ideas and projects. Unfortunately, many of these projects have failed to deliver on all promises. Fair enough, experimental solutions were tried. But too often, the planners and architects had little or no idea of how to effectively address the real needs of people, and failed to consult the potential residents/do adequate research into potential issues. And al too often, the residents of such projects aren't deemed sufficiently worthy of genuinely effective investment. Hence the widespread failure of such projects, not just in the UK but throughout the entire globe.

You can't just cram people into concrete boxes, forget about them and expect everything to be wonderful.