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Pruitt-Igoe (Images of America)

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Within the early 1950s, Pruitt-Igoe, a vast public housing project, arose on 57 acres at the near north side of St. Louis. Barely 20 years after construction, the 33 eleven-story buildings that made up the complex were razed, and the vacant land that was once once home to thousands of other people was once step by step reclaimed by a dense, neglected urban forest. What happened in-between is a story that tempts but additionally defies simple narratives. This is a story of interweaving and competing accounts, both then and now. This volume approaches Pruitt-Igoe with all of its contradiction in mind. Alongside iconic images, other seldom-seen photographs flesh out the history in occasionally surprising ways and, in doing so, preserve one of the most stories which can be in danger of being permanently erased and lost, just as Pruitt-Igoe was once.

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