Originally Posted by
dazza
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I think after all this there was a real desire to start a-new, to raze to the ground, any memories of when we were once vunerable. Building new communities was a kind of restatorative solution to those terrible sights, and to the trauma everyone experienced during the war. It temporarly put us back in control, with more hygenic, disease-free, controlled, spacious and 'new' housing schemes. Sadly these were post-tramatic stress induced solutions. The physical damage last six years; the psychological damage, much longer.
It was also a Western world trend (fad?) of the times.
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The US had no physical damage, but also embarked on similar housing projects at the same time.
They also did not work out as well as intended.
The "Population Bomb" was the scare of the time, and the urban planners collectively decided that large urban housing blocks were the way to go, with no real concern for social impacts.
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