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This design reminds me in some ways of the disastrous Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis. It's demolition in the 1970's was prominently featured i
by kloch 5y ago
This design reminds me in some ways of the disastrous Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis. It's demolition in the 1970's was prominently featured in the film "Koyaanisqatsi"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt_Igoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt_Igoe
"Apartments clustered around small, two-family landings with tenants working to maintain and clear their common areas were often relatively successful. When corridors were shared by 20 families and staircases by hundreds, public spaces immediately fell into disrepair.[20] When the number of residents per public space rose above a certain level, none would identify with these "no man's land[s]"
One would expect that a major University building would not suffer from disrepair but the psychological effect of "disowning" the common areas might remain.
The apartments in Pruitt-Igoe were also deliberately small.