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 ...

70 years ago, St. Louisans moved into the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex in north St. Louis. Today, community members gathered there to remember it.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Tim O'Neil Dec 6, 2014 Dec 6, 2014 0 ST. LOUIS • On Sunday, Oct. 20, 1929, the Post-Dispatch classified section included five ...

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 ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...