The failing of Pruitt Igoe explained in 5 minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2024
- Join us on a journey to explore the rise and fall of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Missouri. Designed in the 1950s by renowned architect Minoru Yamasaki, this public housing complex was meant to embody the ideals of modernist architecture and provide a safe and comfortable home for thousands of low-income families. However, despite its grand vision and innovative features, soon became a symbol of urban decay, poverty, and social isolation. In this video, we delve into the social and political context of the time, the flaws of modernist housing design, and the lessons learned from the Pruitt-Igoe debacle. Through archival footage, expert interviews, and stunning visuals, we shed light on the complex issues surrounding public housing, race, and urban renewal in mid-20th century America. Whether you're an architecture enthusiast, a history buff, or simply curious about the challenges of creating livable communities, this video offers a thought-provoking and eye-opening perspective on one of the most iconic failures of modernism.
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It's obvious the degradation comes from a lack of funds for upkeep and the lack of politicians willing to protect its more vulnerable citizens and provide a proper safety net.
I had professors in my Ivy League architecture classes who had been involved in “urban revitalization” via housing projects in the 1950s-60s and were still defending them thirty years later when it was obvious that they’d solved nothing. Part of the failure was due to President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” social programs which encouraged the disintegration of families in low income groups coupled with the easy availability of drugs etc in the 1960s. But the main reason my teachers defended the projects like Cabrini Green in Chicago and Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis is because they were Marxists and they couldn’t comprehend that the State could get it so so wrong.
This had nothing to do with Great Society 😂this was built in 1951 and was promoted by a Republican governor.The failure of the project had to do with lack of funding and lack of jobs for those living in the project.
The drug epidemic began in 1970 and later 1980,not 1950-1960.
The federal government stopped funding the project after 2 years,the blame is mainly on the local government,and are you sure they were “Marxist” or just liberals?
The real goal of Pruitt igor or Cabrini green is to segregate, separate, and destroy
If the roofs were not leaking and the plumbing was not shoddy, then results would have been different, no?
A lack of funding and the residents themselves seem to be the primary cause of the failure. (from an East-Asian Pakistani perspective)
In all urban areas it's not the housing that's the problem it's always the people. I grew up in public housing in NYC in the 70's and it was pretty good. Now in the same development the conditions are deplorable. It's not just the physical deterioration of the buildings but the quality of people living their. When they were built only working people were allowed to move in, the city changed that in the 80's allowing the homeless and people from group homes to move in. It was all down hill from there.
Thank you for saying this. Most critics of this kind of housing blame the architecture itself for the failure of these projects. Yet other similar-looking buildings in upmarket areas are seen as successful. I see this exact thing playing out in the city where I live. Blocks of flats in bad areas are disasters, while very similar blocks of flats in upmarket areas a few miles away are very sought after. I've also seen previously upmarket blocks of flats become dumps over a few decades when the wrong sort of people move in. I think that it's just too politically incorrect for architects and planners to point out that the type of person living in a building has a massive impact on the success of the project.
Nope,Pruit Igoo in fact started pretty well according to most of those interviewed,the reason it “failed” was by design.After just 2 years the regular maintenance workers stopped being payed to repair things,families were subjected to stupid laws including that a working father could not live with his family in the same building,and other racist and frankly draconian laws meant to create a horrible environment.The project stopped receiving city funding and fell into disrepair,instead of fixing it the city decided to blow the whole thing up.
@@marcusmoonstein242Funding the housing area and providing jobs has a lot more to do with the housing quality.And good quality housing statistically reduces mental stress and likelihood of anti social behavior.
@@mauricio9564 I'm a landlord in a low income area. Even so, I provide good quality housing in older buildings with larger flats than many modern buildings have. Yet the stuff I've seen my tenants do that would never happen in a better area is amazing.
Unfortunately the kind of person living in these places has a major effect on the quality of the environment, but nobody want's to say it officially.
@@marcusmoonstein242Landlord…yeah sorry bro that already disqualifies you having any non biased opinion on this.But in all seriousness bad tenants come from all backgrounds,to begin with you specified the majority of your tenants are low income so you deal with them and likely idealize the higher income tenants you don’t deal with…because they don’t rent usually or rent high end high rises with all the amenities they could ever want and seeing stories some of these people can and often are spoiled brats too.The reason poor neighborhoods are poor and have crime is because they lack resources that rich neighborhoods have,rich neighborhoods also have more education and can better enforce community rules.The solution isn’t to let poor people kick rocks it is to offer actual quality public housing,look at Singapore and Vienna for successful public housing projects that are well funded and planned.
Its not the architect's job to build a structure, to maintain it or to ensure law and order.
Correct. The funds for maintenance and security would come from the city, which over time didn't spend enough. Like in so many older shopping malls, when maintenance and security funding are reduced (the two top items), crime increases.
From the documentary a “low income resident said”, “during the day we would put our record player in the hallway and play Martha and the Vandellas as loud as it would go.” How long would you put up with that? The ‘working families’ left. Leaving only?
EVERYONE KNOWS WHY IT FAILED. Take responsibility for yourself!
It seems like the main failure was a lack of funding. Cities that properly fund their social hosing such as Vienna and Singapore have very functional systems.
Yup
The main reason of failure was the type of people living there😂. Singapore has responsible people and strict laws
@@user-wu2er4zd1d The US has by far the highest per capita prison population of any nation on earth, more than 3 times that of Singapore. So, I don't think America's laws are too lenient. I think the real problem is that we try to solve every social issue by telling poor people to work harder and then have terrible social services for those people to rely on when that inevitably fails.
India as well
I lived in Singapore and used to visit it constantly when I lived in Kuala Lumpur. People mostly live in high rises in both cities and there simply aren't any problems. Both cities were safe and clean and everything was well maintained. We lived in tower blocks in both cities and there was no problem at all. So what is the difference? I will leave it to people reading this to decide. And I am from St. Louis, and knew about Pruit-Igoe. My sister even visited it in the 60's as part of a school project. So what is the difference? You decide.
This clip is visually poorly assembled, with so many images inserted without explanation, making it hard to follow.
Many of the later clips are from the film "Koyaanisqatsi" (which does briefly feature Pruitt-Igoe and its implosion) and just show the demolition of random structuctures that have nothing to do with Pruitt-Igoe. That and the oddly robotic narration make me wonder if if this video was created by AI.
Utopian visions usually end up like this. We can lay some of the blame on the dreamers/planners who thought this was a solution. But much of the blame has to be attributed to good old fashioned low character of the inhabitants.
The army's human experimentation on residents, including injecting people with plutonium, might've had something to do with things too
I googled it and it’s even worse than you say. They were spraying chemicals from the roof tops and all over the grass that made everyone sick
Oh, please. Those are some sad mental gymnastics in an attempt to excuse crime, violence, and vandalism.
@@lorivingot5495 have you done the research on what was done to those people? Drugs make people act crazy.
Why is it always the same group of people who constantly turn every place they live into a littered cesspool of criminality and vandalism?
Why are you a closeted racist who always misses the point
Потому что они русские 🥴🙃
I would like to say something racist, but I won't.
"Just get the hell away from them, there is no fixing this."
-Some white cartoon guy
@@useruseruseruser4K it's the USA, not Russia😂. Russian cities are awesome: clean and beautiful, no homeless people but intelligent and educated people, beautiful women❤
Social Housing won’t work for antisocial People.
Look at who lived there. That’s the common problem. They take care of nothing. If they couldn’t steal it, they’d destroy it. Same now.🙄
Not sure if I follow, could you be more specific as to who “they” are?
@@nfwramboblacks
Racism really makes people ugly huh… ❤
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I could explkain it in one word
Does it start with N?
you can't give prosperity to ppl.
I wonder why Minoru Yamasaki didn't commit Seppuku after the striking failure of his project.
He didn't fail. The government and the residents did.
The reasons that caused it:
1. Its inhabitants.
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