Ben Phillips was five years old when he moved with his family into the Pruitt-Igoe housing development, a predominately-Black and low-income housing complex located northwest of downtown.

Formed in June 2004, Pruitt Igoe's name comes from an infamous public-housing project that once existed in St. Louis. As a child, poet/artist, co-founder Ted Washington walked past Pruitt-Igoe on ...

One of the businesses being considered for consolation cash after losing out on a north side grant by the St. Louis ...

A new exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum is called "Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-1970s.

Despite all these efforts, the Pruitt-Igoe complex eventually was slated to be razed. The Civic Alliance for Housing ...

The demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project will be 50 years old in 2022. Many ideas of how to live collectively have changed since then. Check out some housing projects in which the ...

The Pruitt Igoe public housing project in St Louis, US is one of the most discussed high rise low income housing projects as well as a symbolic icon and the most well-known case study, which ended in ...

WILLISTON – Over his 399 wins, Robby Pruitt dealt with every curveball imaginable. His 400 th brought a new challenge. Hurricane Helene pushed Williston’s game vs. Trinity Catholic back three ...

Rocksborough-Smith, Ian 2020. Hope and Despair in Twentieth-Century Black Chicago. The Journal of African American History, Vol. 105, Issue. 1, p. 112. Gioielli, R.R ...

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