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 ...

The Pruitt-Igoe housing development was hailed as a national model when it opened in 1954. Poor construction, maintenance issues, crime, and failed social policies, led to its downfall in the 1970s, ...

Trees and brush have grown for 32 years to cover the failure. The last of the buildings, 33 in all and each 11 stories high, came down in 1976 - ending St. Louis's public housing experiment called ...

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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 ...

ST. LOUIS — Before Michael E. Willis became one of the nation’s most respected fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he was a 7-year-old boy watching red clay bricks fly through his living ...

M. Paul Friedberg—a pioneering landscape architect, artist, planner, and educator—died on February 15 at age 93. News of Friedberg’s passing was shared by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).

An rendering of proposed commercial buildings in the former Pruitt-Igoe site. The LCRA has in recent months worked with St. Louis-based Civitas to propose design guidelines for the site. LCRA The city ...

ST. LOUIS -- Almost all of the homes in the 100-acre swath north of downtown are empty now. The number of houses lining the streets to the north of the old Pruitt-Igoe housing site had been dwindling ...

If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and even dangerous “projects” and locations of concentrated poverty. But there was a time—a brief shining moment—in which ...