#failed vision

[wickedzeevyln]

Blankets

I have grown wise enough to see what a fool I've beenlong after summer is gone I feel the cold gnawing at my skinyou are a quilt of the best things that I failed to seein a world of chaos you were a sweet anomaly you tucked me in while I tucked you away shelved and neglected forgotten and betrayedwhen winter finally came without you life hasn't been the same.

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[atlasobscura]

The Failed Paradise: Pruitt-Igoe

Intended as a paradise, Pruitt-Igoe is remembered today as America's most notorious housing project. "Modern architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 pm,” wrote architecture critic Charles Jencks of the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects. Completed in 1954, the 33 11-story buildings replaced entire neighborhoods of slums in inner city St. Louis and were initially advertised by the St. Louis Housing Authority as a paradise of “bright new buildings with spacious grounds,” indoor plumbing, electric lights, fresh plastered walls, and other  “conveniences expected in the 20th century.”

Federal money was funneled into the project, a product of a post-war public housing program intended to revitalize downtown St. Louis in the face of rising violence and white flight. It was to be Manhattan on the Mississippi, a cure for the urban poor, swapping slums for amenities and rebuilding the city — yet not 20 years later, the buildings would be imploded by dynamite, having become an icon of failure. What went wrong?

For the decline and what it taught us, keep reading The Failed Paradise: Pruitt-Igoe on Atlas Obscura…

[windowgazingpirate]

Nearly passed out at school today.

What an odd sensation I never want to experience again.