After Pruitt-Igoe: An Urban Forest as an Evolving Temporal Landscape

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Notes

1. Mary C. Comerio, ‘Pruitt-Igoe and Other Stories’, Journal of Architectural Education, 34/ 4, Summer 1981, pp. 26–31; Katharine Bristol, ‘The Pruitt-Igoe Myth’, Journal of Architectural Education, 44/3, May 1991, pp. 163–171.

2. Tim Ingold, ‘The Temporality of the Landscape’, in The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 190.

3. Ibid., p. 189.

4. This narrative can be traced through sources that include Architectural Forum (December 1965), Oscar Newman’s Defensible Space (1973) and Charles Jencks’ The Language of Postmodern Architecture (1977).

5. Lee Rainwater, Beyond Ghetto Walls (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1970), p. 22.

6. Katharine Bristol, ‘The Pruitt-Igoe Myth’, Journal of Architectural Education, 44/3, May 1991, pp. 163–171.

7. In a phone interview with Nora Wendl, 15 June 2011.

8. Jeffrey Byles, Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition (New York: Harmony Books, 2005), pp. 203–206.

9. Not 15 July 1972, as Charles Jencks declares in The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1977).

10. Barry Langford, ‘Seeing only Corpses: Vision and/of Urban Disaster in Apocalyptic Cinema’, Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture (Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2006), p. 45.

11. Details extracted from Jeannette Cooperman and Jarrett Medlin, ‘North Side Story’, St Louis Magazine (November 2009).

12. Camilo José Vergara, The New American Ghetto (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995), p. 17.

13. http://pruittigoenow.org

14. The jury consisted of Teddy Cruz, Professor in Public Culture and Urbanism, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego and Co-Founder, CUE/Center for Urban Ecologies; Theaster Gates, Jr., Artist in Residence and Director of Arts and Public Life at the University of Chicago, and Founder, Rebuild Foundation; Bob Hansman, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Washington University in St Louis; Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Senior Director, Participatory Citizenship and Community Activism Initiative, The New School; Sarah Kanouse, Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Iowa; Diana Lind, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, Next American City; Sergio Palleroni, Professor of Architecture, Portland State University and Founder, BASIC Initiative.