The PruittIgoe Myth (2012)

Destroyed in a dramatic and highlypublicized implosion the PruittIgoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects politicians and policy makers The PruittIgoe Myth explores the social economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America and the city centers in which they resided while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the projects residents In the postWar years the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier privileging some and leaving others in its wake The next time the city changes remember PruittIgoe