The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History – Film Trailer from the Pruitt-Igoe Myth on Vimeo. In it, the voices of former tenants, along with those of urban experts and historians, combine with ...

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In the 1950’s, the Pruitt-Igoe housing project represented a new chapter in city life. The massive collection of buildings promised comfortable homes to lower class residents, but the its ideal ...

Watch the Trailer for The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History The film “tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous ...

Those of you interested in local urban development and socioeconomic history might know of the upcoming Pruitt-Igoe reunion party, which celebrates (for better or for worse) the once-heralded ...

A well-researched and iconoclastic documentary that is both thoughtful and troubling, “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” is indeed a cautionary tale, but what it cautions against is the lure of easy ...

Pruitt-Igoe, it is said, represents all that is misguided about liberal social policy and modernist architectural experiments. These are the illusions the documentary seeks to dispel.

A new documentary called The Pruitt-Igoe Myth by Chad Friedrichs seeks to capture the life of St. Louis’ infamous housing project through the lens of the people who lived there. The film looks ...

Pruitt-Igoe was the name of a massive public-housing project in St. Louis that’s become a byword for urban planning failure. How massive? The development’s 33 buildings took up 57 acres on the ...

The pictures of the thirty-three Pruitt-Igoe buildings imploding during a planned demolition in 1972 have often been used to assert how government subsidies for the urban poor have failed.