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2022 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
14. Pruitt-Igoe, Saint Louis, MO, USA
verfasst von : Ömer Akın
Erschienen in: Design Added Value
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Abstract
The Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis, Missouri, occupies a significant niche in the annals of architectural “riches to rags” stories. Designed for low-income families, the complex comprised 33 high-rise, 11-story, buildings containing 2870 apartments on 57.5 acres. As with most “conventional” public housing of this period, that were built, owned, and managed by a government agency, Pruitt-Igoe was part of the larger post-World War II slum clearance and urban renewal efforts launched by the partnership of local municipalities and the federal government which resulted with the housing units demolition. Several facts concerning conventional public housing in the USA are essential to an understanding of the problems that Pruitt-Igoe faced despite efforts to embellish it with the most advanced design features of the times and the decline and missed assessment of their design added value.