Marcy Subsidized Housing Projects, Brooklyn, New York [Source: brooklyn.com]
This model of public housing encompassing public space effectively suppresses the identities of inhabitants down to bleak facades hiding unsuitable and often dangerous open space.
But for the people – those that were suppose to use the community park with no streetlights, or the narrow alleyways leading to dead-ends, or live and work in the poorly designed buildings of poorly planned districts – these abandoned elements of community become a threat to the neighborhood’s economic attractiveness and secure functionality.