"We wanted to live in a neighborhood, versus a high-rise complex surrounded by other high-rise complexes".
The 46-building high-rise complex, built atop a landfill, has its own power plant, public schools, shopping center, garages, recreation center and indoor pool.
Four family members are subject to a legal order to stay in their homes at the Ivy Apartments, a low-rise complex in Dallas.
This sixth-floor apartment, built in 2008, is in a high-rise complex in the center of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
West Village Houses, a low-rise complex designed by Perkins & Will in the 1970's a few blocks south, was New York City's first attempt to apply her ideas to planning.
Unable to return to Ms. Drakeford's apartment, Mr. Perez decided to seize another apartment in the same building at the Dyckman Houses, a high-rise complex that is operated by the city's Housing Authority, investigators said.
But the community has managed a self-reinvention — beginning in earnest in the late 1990s with the redevelopment of a run-down '40s-era high-rise complex called Parkview Apartments.
Projects can move slowly in Japan, and Roppongi Hills and Mr. Mori's first big high-rise complex, Ark Hills, which opened in 1986, each took 17 years to complete.
The low-rise complex, developed by the Dunn Development Corporation of Brooklyn, has 43 affordable apartments and, at ground level, seven raised cedar planters, each shared by two tenants.
She lives in a federally subsidized high-rise complex in Brooklyn on the border of East New York and Canarsie, two struggling neighborhoods just blocks from where she grew up.
The latest piece of the transformation puzzle, which was unveiled in September 2009, is the Marunouchi Brick Square, a refreshingly low-rise complex surrounding a leafy, sculpture-dotted courtyard.
