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    The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as PruittIgoe (/ˈpruːɪt ˈaɪɡoʊ/), were joint urban housing projects first occupied...
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  • The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a 2011 documentary film detailing the history of the PruittIgoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, and the eventual...
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    PruittIgoe public housing project in St. Louis in 1955. Despite his love of traditional Japanese design and ornamentation, the buildings of Pruitt–Igoe...
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    name, along with that of William L. Igoe, was given to the PruittIgoe public housing complex in St. Louis. Pruitt grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, as the...
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    Destruction of large buildings is depicted, including the one at the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. A time-lapse of a crowd queueing is followed...
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  • Representatives, 1913–1921 Tommy Igoe, drummer and music educator, 1964– Wee Lauren Igoe, teacher from Glasgow, 1992- PruittIgoe, a housing project of St. Louis...
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  • Franklin Pruitt (1860–1947), American poet Pruitt Taylor Vince (born 1960), American character actor PruittIgoe, a former public housing complex in St....
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  • Pruitt-Igoe is often cited as an AIA-award recipient, but the project never won any architectural awards. Bristol, Katharine (May 1991). "The Pruitt–Igoe...
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    October 2011). "Why the Pruitt-Igoe housing project failed". The Economist. Retrieved 15 July 2019. Bristol, Katharine. "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" (PDF). RASMUS...
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    Wendell O. Pruitt, of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis. Thompson, Alice Anne. "The Life and Career of William L. Igoe, The Reluctant...
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    far less success in Western countries. The most iconic failure is the PruittIgoe housing project, a housing complex of 33 buildings, of 11 stories each...
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  • attempts at urban renewal that included public housing projects such as the Pruitt-Igoe complex, the city continued to lose population to county cities. Starting...
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    public housing, and large projects such as Cabrini–Green in Chicago and PruittIgoe in St. Louis became notorious for their squalor. The amount of public...
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    Functional City proposal based upon Le Corbusier's Algiers scheme. The PruittIgoe housing scheme in St Louis, Missouri was designed in accordance with...
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  • to replace substandard housing by new public housing projects such as PruittIgoe. A combination of factors resulted in this being notoriously unsuccessful...
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    were poorly designed and resulted in problems. One prominent example, PruittIgoe, became a symbol of failure in public housing, and was torn down less...
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    Built by the same firm, Leinweber, Yamasaki & Hellmuth, as the infamous PruittIgoe complex, Cochran Gardens was more successful than its ill-fated sister...
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    Waterloo were labelled the "Suicide towers" due to their high rates. Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis, Missouri, was demolished in 1972 just a couple of decades...
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    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex (1951) PruittIgoe housing project (1954) Grosse Pointe University School (1954) Military...
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  • PruittIgoe public housing, St. Louis, Missouri. In the 1950s, this urban renewal project was built; it failed and was razed in the 1970s....
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  • terminal building at St. Louis Lambert International Airport and the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complexes. In 1955, Yamasaki formed his own firm; Yamasaki...
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    Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex, Detroit, Michigan, 1951 PruittIgoe housing project, St. Louis, Missouri, 1954 (demolished in 1972) Gratiot...
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    Missouri, on 15 July 1972 at 3:32 p.m. (or thereabouts) when the infamous PruittIgoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup...
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    within the design process. Death of Modernism (Demolition of Pruitt Igoe) - Pruitt Igoe was a spatial symbol and representation of Modernist theory regarding...
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  • Gropius, Behrens, De Stijl, Rietveld, van Duesberg, Mondrian, La Defense, PruittIgoe, Costa, Niemeyer, Brasilia The Threshold of Liberty – examining the surrealists'...
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  • high-rise building projects in the US after WWII, an example of which is the Pruitt-Igoe development in St Louis demolished in 1972 only 21 years after being...
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    demolition of the massive public housing project in Northwest St. Louis, Pruitt-Igoe, a decayed project. President Ford later commented in his autobiography...
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    later, the army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide via motorized blowers atop Pruitt-Igoe, at schools, from the backs of station wagons, and via planes. Operation...
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    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex (1951) PruittIgoe housing project (1954) Grosse Pointe University School (1954) Military...
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    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex (1951) PruittIgoe housing project (1954) Grosse Pointe University School (1954) Military...
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