City Life

Series: Earthkeeping Series

Duration: 0:29:00

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Chicago | WTTW

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Focuses on the causes of city deterioration, pointing out that a city's residents must get involved in order for the social environment to reflect their lives and needs. Presents urban specialist Lewis Mumford explaining that a healthy city is one in which all the people have a stake in its functioning. Emphasizes that an over-centralized governmental bureaucracy cannot make cities more human.

Complete Record: , Focuses on the causes of city deterioration, pointing out that a city's residents must get involved in order for the social environment to reflect their lives and needs. Presents urban specialist Lewis Mumford explaining that a healthy city is one in which all the people have a stake in its functioning. Emphasizes that an over-centralized governmental bureaucracy cannot make cities more human.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.