99% Invisible-44- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Published: Jan. 6, 2012, 4:23 a.m.

b'The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis became most famous at the moment of its demise. The thirty-three high-rise towers built in the 1950\\u2019s were supposed to solve the impending population crisis in inner city St. Louis.'