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DYB114 Spatial Histories

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Name, date and notes

Author: Vanja Klisura

Name, date and notes



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Pruitt- Igoe, 1950's, St Louis-America -33 towers with 11 stories each for primarily African-American people -less than 20 years later (1972), came "The Death of Modernism" because it was public housing that went wrong -"skip and stop elevators"- were used to cut costs, they would stop on the 1,4,7 and 10th floor, which meant others had to walk


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Pruitt- Igoe, 1950's,  St Louis-America
-33 towers with 11 stories each for primarily African-American people
-less than 20 years later (1972), came "The Death of Modernism" because it was public housing that went wrong
-"skip and stop elevators"- were used to cut costs, they would stop on the 1,4,7 and 10th floor, which meant others had to walk
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