The St. Louis Housing Authority was created in 1939 to ease the shortage. Three years later, it opened 1,300 units at two ...

Detailing the birth, life and death of America’s first major urban housing project in St. Louis, Chad Freidrichs’ “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” combines concise but thoroughgoing sociological-historical ...

Trailer for the documentary film "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History". www.pruitt-igoe.com Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next ...

On the 50th anniversary of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe, it's nearly impossible to understate the failure of the St. Louis public housing project. Famed architect Minoro Yamasaki, who would go on ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

Completed in 1954 and demolished in 1972, the 33-building Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis has been used to support diverse social theories—that government funding is bad; that modernist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Past residents of Pruitt-Igoe (which was demolished in the 1970s) recall trucks releasing a dense chemical fog into their streets ...