Eric Paul Mumford
Eric Paul Mumford, PhD, is the Rebecca and John Voyles Chair of Architecture and Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of modern architecture and urbanism, including The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-60 (2000, MIT Press) and the recent Designing the Modern City: urbanism since 1850 (2018, Yale University Press). He has also lectured widely on his academic work nationally and internationally, and was the co-curator of the 2018 exhibition Tadao Ando and Le Corbusier at the Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago.
By Eric Paul Mumford
The Painful Persistence of Pruitt-Igoe’s Long Goodbye
Some places record the rise and fall of a significant building, or evoke historical events that took place there. Others, like the site where the notorious St. Louis public housing complex known as Pruitt-Igoe once stood, serve less as memorials than material imprints of loss and unresolved histories.
Integrating the FBI
One of the first African American special agents for the FBI, and a veteran of the bureau's Hoover years, reflects on the past and future of law enforcement's engagement with minority communities. "The practice of community policing has, I believe, been a factor in the improvement of relations, but there is still a continuing battle to establish trust," says retired agent Wayne Davis.