Abstract
Abstract The irrelevance of Dr. Rainwater's sociological insights must be apparent to any American housing designer. In a system which almost perfectly insulates him from the needs of lower class families, the social content of housing is the least of the designer's worries. Public housing architects are driven to satisfy the cost limits, the fixation on maintenance, and the bureaucratic routines of local housing authorities and the federal agency. They must conform to the usually gentle, unarticulated American disposition to keep down the poor. At the same time, architects must achieve professional self-realization through the approval of their artistic peers; others count for little. Taken together, these demands so frequently overload their problem-solving capacities, as well as their interests, that designers have little energy left for considering the fine points of behavior-space relationships in lower class life.
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