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After WW2, new towns were designed as social utopias to create (in the words of the post-war government) "a new type of citizen, a healthy, self-respecting, dignified person with a sense of beauty, culture...
The 11th volume in a series which looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact on humanity. This volume features two films: Paris, The Invention of the...
THE INTERRUPTERS looks at urban violence through the stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. Shot over the course of a year,...
Soon more than 550 cities worldwide will have a population of more than one million. In 2030 eighty percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Megacities have traditionally been economic and...
Once an industrial powerhouse and the hub of the American automobile industry, Detroit is now in serious decline and one of the poorest, most segregated cities in the USA. With the participation of Detroit...
Part of a campaign started in 1996 by the Children’s Play Council, Transport 2000 and others to bring home zones to the UK. A home zone is a street or group of streets in which pedestrians and cyclists...
Examines post-war disaster management in Angola, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Rwanda and Somalia. Shows how cities have been reduced to rubble can be rebuilt through partnership. These case studies illustrate how...
Depicts the life of several child street performers in a contemporary Chinese city. These children had been wandering the country as street performers for four years and are virtual ‘untouchables’ to...
A two-part documentary looking in the deepening divisions in society and the emergence of an ‘underclass’. 1: Some senior police officers now see a connection between crime and poverty. Notes...
Looks at the need to improve urban environments and describes a UNCHS project in partnership with UNEP to improve the seaside resort of Malindi in Kenya. A local authority is working together with the...
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