Images of St. Louis’ Pruitt-Igoe housing project in full decline in this short segment from the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, directed by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass.

Pruitt-Igoe may be a tired subject for some, and this clip likely is old hat to others, but its 2 minutes and 58 seconds offer powerful and valuable (and chilling) testament to a profound failure in urban planning — a failure we would do well not to forget.