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.

On July 23, 1953, St. Louis'' first integrated public housing, Igoe, accepted its first four white and three black families. Between it and Pruitt, which housed black families, there were 33 ...

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, ...

Former residents of a low-income, majority-Black housing development in St. Louis, Missouri, are seeking restitution from the US Army over a Cold War-era testing program they say made them ill. Ben ...

Once hailed as the future of urban living, St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing project became a symbol of failure, poverty, and neglect. Its demolition marked not just the end of a neighborhood — but the ...

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, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Former members of the troubled community once hailed as an answer to the city’s housing crisis gathered on Sunday at the site of the now long-demolished Pruitt-Igoe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dir. Chad Friedrichs (2011) Freidrichs’s indispensable cine-essay explores the history of the St. Louis public-housing project of the title, which opened in the mid-1950s only to be demolished 20 ...