ST. LOUIS — It was considered a masterpiece of urban planning when it was built in the mid-1950s. Named for African American fighter pilot Wendell O. Pruitt and a former U.S. Congressman, William L.

The former site of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project , along Cass Avenue, looks nothing like the complex of 33 11-story buildings it once was in the 1950s and ‘60s. The buildings, which were originally ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. One of the Pruitt-Igoe buildings is brought down by dynamite implosion on April 29, 1972. The series of demolitions attracted spectators, ...

Residents of Pruitt-Igoe remember chemicals being sprayed across the building during the Cold War The area of St Louis was described as a "slum district" in army documents The housing complex was ...

On the 50th anniversary of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe, it’s nearly impossible to understate the failure of the St. Louis public housing project. Famed architect Minoro Yamasaki, who would go on ...

The 1972 demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe building in St. Louis (Photo by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research) This is your first of three free ...

ST. LOUIS • During World War II, the crowded city's 860,000 residents included many newcomers who found jobs in defense plants and housing in grim 19th-century tenements. War's end ignited demand for ...

Far from San Diego is St. Louis’ Pruitt-Igoe apartment site, where 33 high-rise apartment buildings were built in 1954 to solve poverty and blight problems and then demolished 20 years later — an ...

Detailing the birth, life and death of America’s first major urban housing project in St. Louis, Chad Freidrichs’ “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” combines concise but thoroughgoing sociological-historical ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Developer Paul McKee has a plan for north St. Louis. At its ...