Los Angeles: City of the Automobile / Connecting Cities: Telecommunications and the Built Environment

Synopsis

Support video for course AT308 in 2 parts: 1) Los Angeles: City of the Automobile: discusses how cars have affected the structure of cities and the character of urban life, allowing the population to spread out over a wide are and to live at low densities. Los Angeles was the first city to experience the problems of urban sprawl and pollution, and in an extreme form. Asks how this is dealt with and how new technologies are involved; 2) Connecting Cities: Telecommunications and the Built Environment: telecommunications can extend the workplace but it is not known what larger changes to cities might follow in the wake of the new technologies - the telegraph and telephone supported, but did not cause, the decentralisation of industry, the concentration of financial services and the spread of the suburbs.

Series

Cities and Technology: From Babylon to Singapore, Course At308

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 62 min.

Year of production

1999

Availability

Sale; 2001 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Subjects

Environmental science

Keywords

cars; environmental issues; Los Angeles; pollution; suburbs; urban development; USA

Credits

Producer

Amanda Willett

Production Company

Name

BBC Open University Productions

Distributor

Name

Open University Worldwide

Web

http://www.ouw.co.uk External site opens in new window

Phone

+44 (0) 1908 274066

Address

Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA

Notes

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