The Great Society’s Model Cities Program wasn’t perfect. But it offered a vision of what democratic, community-based planning could look like.
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During World War I, the US government designed and constructed entire communities for workers and their families, setting new standards for housing and neighborhood planning.
Ethiopia’s mass housing project has built and transferred half-a-million houses in two decades – but it’s damaging the social fabric of communities.


