American cities experienced rapid growth and change, and also faced new challenges after the end of World War II. The consolidation of ghettos in inner cities and the rise of the suburbs are two of the characteristics and problems that subsequently presented themselves to American cities. One of the largest projects created as a solution was the social housing project. However, these public houses, although on paper they seemed like a great idea, in practice they did not turn out to be such a great project because they generated many tensions and problems in the cities and neighborhoods. Public housing was designed to free the city and the streets from vagrants. and the poor; however, despite significant support and investment, in practice this feat has not been achieved. The article The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh discusses the racial and class stereotypes that obscured the operation of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. When it opened in November 1962, Robert Taylor Homes consisted of twenty-eight sixteen-story buildings containing 4,300 units on Chicago's South Side and was considered the largest public housing project in the world. This demonstrates how much space and money has been invested in this social housing project. Chicago Housing Authority leaders initially tried to work with tenants, but were quickly overwhelmed by the task of maintaining the enormous building inhabited by thousands of children. Tenant candidate selection committees, made up of managers and tenants, eventually stopped meeting, the population became increasingly poor, and by the 1970s, single mothers on welfare made up the majority. adult residents. This was the start of a failed experiment, because after that things only got worse. The young... middle of paper ...... which was created among the suburbs, which was not the ideal daily life that the suburbs were designed to create. Additionally, consolidations of inner-city ghettos as well as the rise of suburbs are just two of the features and problems that confronted American cities after the climax of World War II. Ghettos in inner cities were not as successful as imagined, because in practice they suffered from overcrowding, poverty, racial tensions, violence and drugs. Moreover, public housing projects (created to solve the problems of poverty and vagrants caused by the rapid growth of cities) eventually suffered the same fate. As for the emergence of suburbs, they also did not prove to be as successful as expected, because in practice they created segregated cities and communities..