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99% Invisible - 44: The Pruitt-Igoe myth

Entertainment — Demise of a super famous housing project In St
Entertainmentest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 16 probesavg response 718 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

99% Invisible - 44: The Pruitt-Igoe myth's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Mumbly Hour - Siri, get me an Uberentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
KCRW's The Treatment - Nick Offermanentertainmentsimilar100%16.80.0— unverified
Plant Trainers Podcast - Is The Plant-Based or Vegan Diet Extreme?entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Special Relationship - #1: Terrorism and National Securityentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Planet Money - Why Can't We Bet On Elections?entertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
The Digital Life 183 — Parenting in the Digital Ageentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Inside Outside - 21: How VC's Assess Risk w/ Paul Singhentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
The Pitch - Ep 23: Update from Flair & Sonarentertainmentsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:36Z55unknown
2026-08-19 13:50Z581unknown
2026-08-11 00:27Z16unknown
2026-08-08 06:18Z39unknown
2026-08-05 18:39Z323unknown
2026-07-30 17:53Z521unknown
2026-07-22 09:44Z942unknown
2026-07-17 09:26Z615unknown
2026-07-10 10:49Z5902unknown
2026-07-04 09:40Z273unknown
2026-06-23 13:56Z198unknown
2026-06-21 10:49Z448unknown
2026-06-20 00:40Z70unknown
2026-06-18 22:56Z72unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · 99% Invisible - 44: The Pruitt-Igoe myth · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/99-invisible-44-the-pruitt-igoe-myth · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.