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Cabrini Green immediately comes to mind. The police used to get sniped in the parking lot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes
The Bijlmer in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, exactly the same
I'm not sure about the point you're trying to make but the bijlmer, while having had a tricky past, is now a perfectly safe neighborhood. You really can't point at the Dutch to make this point (if I understood this thread correctly, it's early). They work hard at making these areas mixed use, promote cultural mixing etc. Paris on the other hand not so much.
Right yeah the whole project was a total disaster, there's lots of info about all the ways it was badly done. Similar bad ideas as the French basically just putting all the "undesirables" in a bucket on the side. My point is they corrected course about it same as they did in Osdorp, like sure these days gentrification and housing prices in the whole Randstad are just insane so the dynamics are different but I do think it also starts with an actual will to do good urban planning corrections originally. I'm just saying, the Dutch are a bad example because they're some of the best in the world at this stuff.