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 ...

St. Louis is finally ready to do something with the site of the old Pruitt-Igoe housing complex. What goes in there may say a lot about what cities have learned from the development mistakes of the ...

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), a documentary film directed by Chad Freidrichs, explores the history of the St. Louis, Missouri housing project that became best known for its demolition in the early ...

Here’s the trailer for The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History, a documentary film by Chad Freidrichs, in association with the Missouri History Museum. We see vintage advertisements for the “bright, ...

Ada Taylor, founder and owner of Deer Valley Home Health Services and Ol’Henry Restaurant in Berkeley, Missouri, grew up in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project. A site where many blacks from the rural ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Phillips’ childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing complex. He also remembers watching men ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist’s conception of Natiponal Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters in St. Louis, next to former Pruitt-Igoe housing complex. Provided St. Clair County lost out to North St. Louis in the ...

New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made “affordability” his top selling point and a freeze on the rents of nearly 1 million city apartments as a key element. Should he prove ...

ST. LOUIS – Elliott Davis, a longtime reporter at FOX 2, just announced his retirement after 45 years on St. Louis television. Known for his “You Paid For It” series on government waste, Davis has ...