Pruitt-Igoe myth (2011) is a documentary about a housing project in St.Louis city that turned into as a social and architectural failure, leaving behind 33 abandoned buildings.
The irony is, buildings were built on the same area where were slums and it took only 20 years to realize that government actually built "new" slums, where the same problems were in highlights - poverty and racial segregation.
After watching this movie , i had a very interesting discussion with my sister who suggested to watch it. We realized that it somehow reminded us similar scenario in USSR times - lots of housing projects were built and some of them were almost completely made for sailors, some for militarists, some for working-class immigrants from far-fucking-away lands. A promising start but it left behind many issues until these days. :/
Anyway, i could never imagined that such thing as racial segregation after post-ww2 ever existed in such democratic country as USA.
I have seen this documentary and been to St. Louis, MO several times. If you take the bridge across the river into East St. Louis, Illinois the situation has not changed at all.
Milwaukee also has the unfortunate distinction of being the "most segregated city in America" by the 2010 census data. If you drive through some of the neighborhoods it is evident.
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Yeah I've watched the documentary too. My interest in urban planning is what initially sparked my interested and lead me to watch it.
I found the racial segregation aspect really interested to me, and the movie makes a lot of good points about it.
America does have problem's with racial segregation, still. It's not like what it was like in the past where black people couldn't use the same bathrooms as whites or go to the same schools but there is a lack of racially unified neighborhoods. When I say that I don't mean it as in a lack of neighborhoods where whites and blacks get along but its more that in America there are white neighborhoods and black neighborhoods. It's not like blacks can't live in white neighborhoods or vice-versa but that whites and blacks typically live in their own neighborhoods.
I live in a pretty segregated city. It's not really a racist city but neighborhoods are typically mostly one race.
This map is a little offensive but it's kinda of true. You can see how the rivers really separate races in this map but also Pittsburgh is a very hilly city and that factors into it a lot too. The Artisan Pizza Blood Line http://www.flickr....yathomedefenseman/
It also has rampant problems with retards using apostrophes to form plurals.
Calm down, SOmehow i think racial issues in america are a bigger issue then someone using a grammatical device incorrectly. When Caught Always, Always Use the Jim trick.
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