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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Trailer for the documentary film "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History". www.pruitt-igoe.com At the corner of Jefferson and ...

The Pruitt-Igoe housing development was hailed as a national model when it opened in 1954. Poor construction, maintenance issues, crime, and failed social policies, led to its downfall in the 1970s, ...

ST. LOUIS – Elliott Davis, a longtime reporter at FOX 2, just announced his retirement after 45 years on St. Louis television. Known for his “You Paid For It” series on government waste, Davis has ...

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 ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Phillips’ childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing complex. He also remembers watching men ...