Trials and Territories

Zurich, 2014. Publication

Spaces of Change

Editor: Marc Angélil

Managing Editor: Benjamin Leclair-Paquet

Publisher: ETH Future Cities Laboratory

Guided by politics of good intentions, early experiments with public housing in the United States inadvertently replaced slums with modern ghettos. Far from being driven solely by political and spatial decisions, the continual transformation of public housing strategies mirrors changes in social, cultural, legal and economic spaces as well. Telling the story of Baltimore’s public housing amounts to telling the story of the city, of its politics, culture and norms, and of those spaces of change within this.