The failing of Pruitt Igoe explained in 5 minutes
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 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.
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
The army's human experimentation on residents, including injecting people with plutonium, might've had something to do with things too
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.
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)
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!
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.
This clip is visually poorly assembled, with so many images inserted without explanation, making it hard to follow.
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❤
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
I could explkain it in one word
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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.
At the point when the middle class moved to suburban areas “ which were created as an escape from the nightmare that housing integration caused after the primary reason for building and creating these high rise buildings,” they became a “Project” to the engineers and researchers of social sciences. How black people act under certain conditions, behavioral and psychological.. it wasn’t built for blacks it was created for whites after WW2. Because they couldn’t have it anymore it became a animalistic project and the people were not only treated as such but put in conditions to fight among each other for resources to sustain … it’s s mind eff all the way around.
You have to understand the color of law, red lining , steering, panic selling, credit , it was all a part of a higher plan to keep segregation flowing under the radar… and keep blacks in specific areas…