Tom McCrea: Pruitt-Igoe complex, St. Louis, Missouri, 1955 The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William

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 racialsegregation. 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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