Question
During the construction of Interstate 55, residents of the destroyed Pleasant View neighborhood were afforded vouchers to live at this site. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this urban housing project north of the “Delmar Divide” in St. Louis. It was demolished within two decades in an event Charles Jencks described as the end of modernist architecture.
ANSWER: Pruitt–Igoe housing project [or Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments]
[10e] The city of St. Louis made use of this two-word legal power to acquire private property for public use, first to construct Pruitt–Igoe in the 1950s, then to lure the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to the site today.
ANSWER: eminent domain
[10h] This company convinced a different city’s first African-American mayor to make use of eminent domain for a project termed Factory ZERO, which failed to revive the neighborhood of Poletown.
ANSWER: General Motors [or GM] (The mayor was Coleman Young.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Claremont A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |