public housing, safety-solution for urban slums turned bad b/c of maintenence and neglect from lack of funding b/c of shrinking city Louis, achieved notoriety by being blown up 17 years after it was built -It became an instant symbol of all that was perceived as wrong with urban renewal, not merely in the United States but the world at large -On the day that the buildings were completed, they were little more than steel and concrete warrens, poorly designed, badly equipped, in adequate in size, badly located, unventilated and virtually impossible to maintain -Same architect as M&T Building in Buffalo and the original World Trade Center Towers -About 3,000 units -Lacked defensible space (just like Ellicott Complex on North Campus) -Elevators broke frequently, garbage shoots were filled then accumulated in hallways -Originally displaced residents were not moved back in, instead it was even poorer rural residents - people not accustomed to living in close proximity -St. End of modernism -"An architect's ego trip"-skip-stop elevators, grounds, decks were for design, not people -An award-winning 1955 project in St.
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