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Someone should make a movie about the Pruitt-Igoe projects. Designed by a renowned architect, built with no expense spared, inhabited by niggers, ruined and demolished 18 years later, downfall blamed on "hostile architecture." It's been memoryholed pretty hard.
>Pruitt–Igoe were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex of 33 eleven-story high rises was designed in the modernist architectural style by Minoru Yamasaki
>By the mid-1960s it was plagued by poor maintenance and crime, particularly vandalism and juvenile delinquency. Numerous initiatives to reverse the decline failed, and by 1970 more than two-thirds of the complex was vacant. Demolition of the complex began in 1972 with a televised implosion of several of the buildings
> In the aftermath of its demolition, Pruitt–Igoe became a symbol of the failings of the society-changing aspirations of modernist architecture, as the project's problems were widely attributed to architectural flaws that created a hostile and unsafe environment
