Pruitt-Igoe Sequence - "Trouble in Utopia" - Narrated by Robert Hughes [1981]

They told us the buildings were being imploded in order to make way for improved living conditions for us. We cheered when the buildings came down. We didn't realize it was the beginning of the end.

Flooding came from busted pipes in most of the bedroom areas..all the frost in front of the buildings that you see is a testiment of the results in the heart of the winter season....cheap insulated pipes..people on the outside tend to blame the tenants for the destruction of pruitt-Igoe rather then blaming the designers that used cheap material..Elevators was designed to stop on the 1st floor .4th floor 7th floor and 10th floor..now wasn't that crazy...

n2life2 is right on point..I was a resident there..as a child..we did everything any other neighborhood children would do..Play football, baseball..go to the neighborhood center..Desoto Center..the problem was 33 buildings...poor sanitation system,,poor maintenance lack of security...it was just a matter of time before it all would come tumbling down..there were steam pipes inside the apartment bedrooms..that malfunctioned.
When you see pictures of frozen windows they came from frozen pipes.

Squatters.......no way..I was there...the possibility of people caught in the explosion is total nonsense..matter fact I lived there...

hehe. shoulda kept it segregated! maybe then the igoe section would've survived. ;)

i, personally, are a fan of 60s architecture, i cant pinpoint it, but theres something about the sharp lines and boxy shape that is pleasing to the eye...

I was googling twin towers which led me to wiki article about yamasaki and there was a bit about pruitt igoe where it said that after 20 yrs it was demolished. For some reason I find abandoned/decaying/destroyed architecture fascinating.

i love it aswell!

thanks a lot