St. Louis is finally ready to do something with the site of the old Pruitt-Igoe housing complex. What goes in there may say a lot about what cities have learned from the development mistakes of the ...

The former site of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project , along Cass Avenue, looks nothing like the complex of 33 11-story buildings it once was in the 1950s and ‘60s. The buildings, which were originally ...

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 ...

The demolition of a building in the Pruitt-Igoe public-housing development in St. Louis. In the era of Trump, even cliches will offer no solace. “There is no ‘doing more with less,’ which we’ve done ...

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Tim O'Neil Dec 6, 2014 Dec 6, 2014 0 ST. LOUIS • On Sunday, Oct. 20, 1929, the Post-Dispatch classified section included five pages of homes for sale. In the Fairlight Downs subdivision in Olivette, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. 7/14/11 Thursday St. Louis -- The warning sign is so old that a tree has grown around it at the old Pruitt Igoe housing complex ...

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 ...

This devastating documentary, about the St. Louis high-rise public-housing development that went from Great Urban Hope to international disgrace, is an engulfing real-life horror story as well as a ...

Public housing in the United States has never sheltered a significant proportion of Americans, perhaps 3 percent at most, unlike in many western European countries where 10 to 40 percent of households ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – Elliott Davis, a longtime ...