Things that don't go together (5)

What do the Pruitt-Igoe buildings built in the 1950s in north St. Louis

have in common with the World Trade Center?

Well for starters, they both were designed  by the architech Minoru Yamasaki.

For seconds, they were both demolished by intentional, though markedly different means:

There seems to be a lot of failed utopian ideas at play.

Pruitt-Igoe was built in two separate groups of buildings.

The Pruitt complex to house african americans and other minorities

Igoe for the whites.

This had to have been back in the 1950s.

The complexes were later integrated

Never achieving more than 50 % occupancy

Architecture journals praised the complex as a beautiful example of International Style housing

which would alleviate and even end poverty and to cure society's ills.

Some residents, upon moving in, said it looked like a dream come true.

Crime, vandalism, decay.

This was before the planes impacted the buildings.

Flown by people brandishing an entirely different type of book

and a radically different type of dream.