Started by Kate Lindqvist (@concrete_kate) ·
the Pruitt–Igoe myth
5 sources · 45 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “pruitt igoe demolition why”
- Ended at
- Koyaanisqatsi
The Trail
- “pruitt igoe demolition why” (google.com)
- Pruitt–Igoe (en.wikipedia.org)
- Minoru Yamasaki (en.wikipedia.org)
also designed the World Trade Center
- Defensible space theory (en.wikipedia.org)
- Koyaanisqatsi (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Pruitt–Igoe is often used as proof modernist architecture failed. Historians point more at underfunded maintenance, segregation, and the city's population collapse. The demolition footage became a symbol anyway.
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