THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH

Director: 
Chad Freidrichs
Featuring: 
Slyvester Brown, Irvin Dagen, Elmer Fiedler, Robert Fishman
Language: 
English
Production Country: 
USA
Runtime
79 minutes
Rating
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary
Year
2011
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A Community Collaborations Event

Presented in partnership with The Housing Fellowship and Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition.

Featuring a post-show Q&A.


It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. The world-famous image of its implosion has helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight. To examine the interests involved in Pruitt-Igoe’s creation. To re-evaluate the rumors and the stigma. To implode the myth.

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