![]() ![]() ![]() The Lower East Side Planning Association proposed a super-block based on the ‘neighbourhood unit’. East River Houses, completed in 1941, was New York's first high-rise public housing project, but high-rise ‘super-projects’ had been proposed as early as 1932. Super-block plan favored by city, old-fashioned divisions are giving way to new scheme, Rheinstein asserts. Super-block planning was proposed in the early 1930s for slum clearance redevelopment, but it had become well enough accepted by the late 1930s to be publicly advocated for by Alfred Rheinstein, Commissioner of Housing and Buildings and Chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, for all housing project development ( New York Times, 1939 New York Times. ![]() Written as Jane Jacobs was writing The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this Newsweek article described racial tensions among Harlem's various ethnic groups easily touched off into confrontation and riot (African-Americans from the US South and Puerto Ricans were moving into the neighbourhood by the tens of thousands annually) narcotics addiction, trafficking and violence which had spilled over into city high schools ‘costly barracks’ such as Fort Greene Houses that were creating ‘new slums’ and the flight of middle-class New Yorkers to the suburbs.Ģ.
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