Hendel in D.C.
I live in Washington, D.C., where I first came to work as a writer and producer for The Atlantic in 2010. Now I cover transportation for local news site TBD at its On Foot blog.
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I live in Washington, D.C., where I first came to work as a writer and producer for The Atlantic in 2010. Now I cover transportation for local news site TBD at its On Foot blog.
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All authors agree that by the end of the 1960s, Pruitt–Igoe was nearly abandoned and had deteriorated into a decaying, dangerous, crime-infested neighborhood; its architect lamented: “I never thought people were that destructive.” In 1971, Pruitt–Igoe housed only six hundred people in seventeen buildings; the other sixteen were boarded up.
