“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” by Chad Freidrichs (2012)

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Mediatheque (Room 200), 1 Spadina Crescent

Open to Daniels Faculty students and their guests. Registration is not required.

This screening is part of the Lives of Others film series and is run in conjunction with the undergraduate course ARC354: History of Housing: Crisis, Visions, Commonplace taught by Petros Babasikas.
 
The series reflects on issues discussed in class: Housing as Urbanism, the Industrial Revolution, Tenements and Apartments, Utopias and Communes, the Garden City, Post-War Reconstruction, Public Housing, Informal Settlements, the Ruins of Modernism, Crises, New Taylorism, etc.
 
Students are exposed to seminal international cinematic works from the 1960s, 90s and 00s’; different structures, tropes, characters, stories or visions; close-ups or panoramas of the spaces, challenges and dreams of common and everyday domestic life in global cities. Open discussions will follow each screening.