Carr Square Village: The Design That Survived Where Pruitt-Igoe Failed
In St. Louis, a few blocks from where the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project once stood before its decline and demolition in the 1970s, another public housing development from the same era is still standing today, functioning much as it was designed to. Pruitt-Igoe was, for decades, the most cited failure in American public housing: 33…