The Pruitt Igoe Myth

The PruittIgoe Myth is a 2011 documentary film detailing the history of the PruittIgoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, and the eventual decision to implode the entire complex in 1976.

The film begins with a former resident of the PruittIgoe public housing complex returning to the site of the buildings in the north side of St. Louis, and noting that in spite of the decades since the planned demolition of the buildings, the site remains largely vacant. It continues by detailing the decision by the city to replace 19th century tenement housing with highrise public housing, ultimately designed by Minoru Yamasaki later the famed designer of the World Trade Center in the modernist style as thirtythree 11floor buildings.Interviews with former residents, archival images, and film are used to tell first impressions about moving into PruittIgoe and the steady deterioration of living conditions during the 1960s and early 1970s before being destroyed by planned implosion between 1972 and 1976. ........

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