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.
Check out these star forts from across Europe. This kind of structure, first seen in Italy in the mid-15th century, was designed so that an attack on any individual wall could be defended from the two adjacent star points by shooting at the enemy from behind. Some enclose entire towns, while others protect a key building like a castle, fortress, or barracks.
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As we drift along the leading edge of the day in a dreamlike splendor, awash in the soft light of dawn, it is a marvel to think that before a twelve second flight on this day in 1903…a mere 118 years ago…all of this was truly a dream of flight…We are blessed to live in an age where, thanks to pioneering dreamers like the Montgolfier brothers in their balloons and the Wright brothers in their…
