#pruitt-igoe

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Gropius implored his faithful to design buildings as though no architectural history existed. Out went ornamentation: goodbye string courses, pediments, columns, rusticated stone, polychromatic stones, Palladian windows, and Romanesque arches.

But the buildings hated their lives and what they had become.

So, early one glorious morning, after weeks of intensive debate when their residents were asleep, they simply imploded.

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Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the "Atomic Cloud" • Protean Magazine

In the 1950s, the U.S. military conducted unethical radiological experiments on Black communities, including the Pruitt-Igoe public housing

November 28, 2022 , by Devin Thomas O’Shea

The true story of the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex may never be fully declassified. But what we do know is this: it involves the unlucky architect of the World Trade Center, a lost stockpile of a hundred thousand baby teeth, and mountains of recently disclosed U.S. Army records that describe secret radiological experiments conducted on unsuspecting citizens in Minneapolis, Winnipeg, and St. Louis.

This is some truly evil shit.

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Pruitt-Igoe complex, St. Louis, Missouri

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Tom McCrea: Pruitt-Igoe complex, St. Louis, Missouri, 1955

The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in the US city of St. Louis, Missouri. Living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began to decline soon after completion in 1956. By the late 1960s, the complex had become internationally infamous for its poverty, crime, and racial segregation. All 33 buildings were demolished with explosives in the mid-1970s, and the project has become an icon of failure of urban renewal and of public-policy planning.

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I don’t think that Tumblr is the Titanic of social media...

but, once the dust settles and this platform is no more, the mismanagement and demise of Tumblr will be studied in a manner more akin to the highly-publicized implosion of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in the 1960s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAfACI7LBY#action=share

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Pruitt-Igoe [Minoru Yamasaki, 1954-55]. Saint Louis, Missouri. United States Geological Survey, después de 1963 y antes de 1972 

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Pruitt–Igoe, a public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, initially opened in 1954 and was demolished between 1972 and 1976 due to severe deterioration and social problems. 

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The Rise and Fall of Pruitt-Igoe: A Symbol of Urban Renewal’s Broken Promises

In 1954, St. Louis saw the grand opening of the Wendell Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, collectively known as Pruitt-Igoe. This ambitious public housing project, designed by modernist architect Minoru Yamasaki, was hailed as a breakthrough in urban renewal. Its 33 eleven-story high-rises, built with federal funds, were intended to replace the slums of the city’s inner ring and provide…