The Pruitt - Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to see a new Architecture theme each week! Living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began to decline soon after its completion in 1956. By the late 1960s, the complex had become internationally infamous for its poverty, crime, and racial segregation. The project has become an icon of failure of urban renewal and of public-policy planning. Its been designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki. Despite his love of Japanese traditional design, this was a stark, modernist concrete structure. The housing project experienced so many problems that it was demolished in 1972, less than twenty years after its completion. Address: 2300 Cass Ave, St. Louis, MO 63106, United States Music by: "Futurist Leisure Pursuits" by Cyanotic from iTunes For more architectural videos please subscribe and like our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/architecturerecords Thanks for watching

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