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Surviving Cities/City Futures (1999)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

With half the world’s population now living in cities, uses evidence drawn from examinations of New York, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mexico City, Moscow, Sydney and Manchester to ask crucial questions about...

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Tale of Four Cities, A 1 (1998 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. ? min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Given that cities share in common crises that endanger the sustainability of our habitat, looks at the lives of ordinary families and describes the deteriorating urban environment in four cities: Chenni,...

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Cities in a Hurry (1999)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Looks at the Asian cities of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Singapore. Both are striving to be at the regional intersection of global economic matters, but while it is easy to see the futures of these cities...

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Cities in Common (1997 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Argues that, with half the world’s population now living in urban areas, cities are a good focal point for intervention to help reduce unsustainable consumption patterns and make the world ecologically...

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Mother of the Megacities (1993 Video)

Producer

Andrea Brown

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The problems facing the world’s largest cities are often seen as hopeless, yet in Cairo there is no homelessness, the crime rate is low and development continues within traditional cultural boundaries....

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Burn off My Rusts: Reviving the Inner Cities (1986 Video)

Director

Roger Smith

Producer

Roger Smith

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Hire or sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min.

Based on the All Saints area of Nottingham, examines the Victorian origins of the inner cities, the reasons for their social, physical and economic decline and the attempts by central government, housing...

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Growing Cities (2013)

aka: Growing Cities: A Film About Urban Farming in America

Subject

Agriculture; American Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 93 minutes), $18.71

From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. Growing Cities goes coast to coast to tell the stories of these intrepid urban farmers, activists, and everyday...

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Homo Urbanus: Habitat II and Beyond (1997 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

With over half the entire population living in towns and cities for the first time in history, the UN Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II, was held in Istanbul in June 1996 to celebrate a new human...

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Given a Voice...: Poor Urban Children in Accra (1996 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 12 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Looks at poor urban children in Accra, Ghana. In the fast-growing cities of Africa such as Accra, more and more children are living on the strets. Poor and neglected, and living under unhealthy and even...

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Filthy Cities (2011)

Producer

Sam Starbuck

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Presenter Dan Snow traces the evolution of three of the world’s major cities, from the perspective of their unhygienic pasts, looking at how Paris, London and New York have evolved into paradigms of the...

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