The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
2012 · 79 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 944 VOTES · DIR. Chad Freidrichs
Overview
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.
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00:00:00 Today in America
00:04:28 on the wide lawns
00:07:27 an anti-public housing clich⸡
00:10:51 while anxious business interests
00:15:13 It was like another world.
00:18:39 maintained like it was when they first opened it up.
00:21:39 There was never an adequate provision
00:25:11 on the margins of cities
00:28:46 as you pass through it.
00:32:51 in Pruitt-Igoe as that different from the lives of poor people
00:36:41 we have to curtail what you're doing.
00:40:13 It's a way to really radically separate
00:43:38 of immigrant and migrant groups
00:47:28 I don't know, I think, uh, in that environment, uh
00:50:03 for position on who's gonna be the top dog.
00:53:11 they recessed 'em up into the ceiling
00:55:47 Grants were given to rehab buildings
00:59:15 (Crowd shouting angrily)
01:02:13 Well, by withholding our money, we feel that we can--
01:04:53 as a disaster area and an emergency area
01:08:03 that I did not understand, but I knew that there was
01:11:23 'cause your (Bleep) Is out of here."
01:15:25 to the point where people thought it was necessary
01:18:33 Fearful of your life all the time.