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Is there a consensus on why large scale public housing projects, created with the intent to improve the lives of their residents, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St Louis or Cabrini–Green in Chicago, failed? How has this impacted city planning?

by /u/td4999 in /r/AskHistorians

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