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Singapore indeed, and whether you might like it or not the system seems to work, local authorities are heavily involved in neighborhood activities and creating leisure facilities nearby. Whether it's a fair comparison with London, I guess so. Both are immensely rich cities and have a high need for social housing.
I'm not here to defend whether high rise is better or worse than low rise. I've lived on an estate that was designed by Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company and it's two up two down cottages for about 80% of the estate. The rest of it is low-rise council housing which was formerly known as crack city. If dealers want to hide they can hide whether it's high rise, low rise or whatever.
The failure and success of social housing is in hands of the local governments and the associations. If you're going to put people who are on the margins of society into one building or area than the outcome will most likely be that it's going to fail.
For every Robin Hood Gardens there is a Hufeisensiedlung.