Carr Square Village: The Design That Worked Where Pruitt-Igoe Failed
In St. Louis, just a few blocks from where the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project once stood before its decline and demolition, another public housing development from the same era is still standing and occupied today. Pruitt-Igoe was, for decades, the most cited failure in American public housing: 33 eleven-story towers imploded on national television after…