The government was working with developers to build massive housing complexes for poor and working-class families outside every major city.
Kronental began the ongoing project in 2011, chronicling the lives of elderly Parisians lingering in the city's historic "grands ensembles" -- massive housing complexes built after World War II.
Much of the community's woes particularly the sense that it lacks cohesiveness and has a dented identity can be traced back to the 1950s, when much of its old housing stock was bulldozed to create a massive public housing complex, including multiple high-rise buildings, which were at that time viewed as the ideal solution for low-income residents.
"I walked so far to get here," said Papier, who lives about six blocks away at the massive Park La Brea housing complex adjacent to Farmers Market.
It mostly served the massive Columbia Point public housing complex adjoining it, which was built in 1953.
Before our eyes, chimneys give way to giant cranes: midwives delivering massive housing and residential complexes, whose hyperventilating billboards blithely ignore the antiquated civic utilities underneath.
It captures brownstones and co-ops with park views as well part of the massive Frederick Douglass Houses, a public housing complex whose 20-story towers rise between West 100th and West 104th Streets east of Amsterdam Avenue.
Next on the demolition list is the massive, vacant "Brewster Projects" housing complex on the near east side.
The lone remaining asset from his father's era is a 4% interest in Spring Creek Towers, a massive, 46-tower government subsidized housing complex with 5,881 units in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood that the Trumps reportedly bought into in 1973.
In the 1990s, the Hopewell area was the scene of a massive reaction against rural development after a sprawling luxury housing complex was built on farmland.
