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Joseph Heathcott, "The City Remade: Public Housing and the Urban Landscape in St. Louis, 1900-1960." Indiana University, 2002.
The infamous image of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project crashing to the ground in a storm of rubble has come to symbolize the failure of postwar public policy, planning, and design to solve the problems of poverty and inner city decay. Conceived after World War Two, built and settled in the mid-1950s, and demolished in the mid1970s, Pruitt-lgoe was one of the...