Texas: Instant Cities
- Synopsis
- Available cheap land, no zoning laws, unlimited wealth and an expansionist attitude makes Texas a unique place for architectural experiment. In the ‘pop-up’ cities of Dallas and Houston new concepts and new values are overturning traditional perceptions of town and city planning. Shows how designs in Houston such as the Penzoit Building, the Post Oak Central and the Lincoln Post Oak Hotel broke new ground. Shows fantasy houses in the suburbs of Dallas.
- Series
- Architecture at the Crossroads, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.
- Year of production
- 1986
- Availability
- Sale
- Uses
- Architecture students at all levels.*
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Keywords
- Texas; town & regional planning
Credits
- Producer
- Peter Adam
- Writer
- Peter Adam
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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