Word: pruitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outdoor Pruitt-lgoes...
...like hell." Cunningham is known as "Sam Bam" for his devastating blasts up the middle, and he is also an "exceptional blocker and capable pass catcher." Other running backs whom the scouts like include Chuck Foreman, 6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs., Miami, and consensus All-America Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma, 5 ft. 9 in., 176 lbs., who will probably be turned into a wide receiver and kick-return specialist...
...idea of defensible space first emerged back in 1964, when I was part of a team of architects and sociologists who were studying why the notorious Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis was being torn apart by the people who lived in it. Every public area-the lobbies, the laundries and mail rooms-was a mess, literally. There was human excrement in the halls. Except in one small area on each floor of each building. You had to go through a fire door and then you were in a little hallway separating two apartments. This little hall...
...buildings. Because families earned no money, they could not pay existing rents. Rents were lowered, while maintenance costs went up, causing such a strain on the PHA that funds that would have been used to keep up smaller public-housing projects around the city had to be diverted into Pruitt-lgoe...
...Pruitt-Igoe's slide into disaster was also caused by economy measures that compromised Yamasaki's original design. Landscaping was reduced to a few oases of green. Steampipes were left uncovered, and a number of people were severely burned. Public toilets were eliminated from the ground floors and playgrounds, and out of either urgency or irritation, children resorted to elevators or hallways to urinate. Cramming 12,000 people into 57 acres of land exacerbated already grim social problems...