City Visions

Duration: 31

Genre: Educational

Creator: Atlantic Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows projects designed to humanize metropolitan areas, interwoven with commentaries of architects, city planners and landscape designers. Discusses the problems automobiles have created, and reveals both radical and conservative measures that might be taken to restore cities to their inhabitants., Examines the aesthetic features of cities, emphasizing the need for marketplaces, plazas, and parks as focal points to draw people into active roles. Discusses the role of the automobile and the resulting neglect in building pedestrian walkways. Recommends design features which emphasize people and shows many successful parks, fountains, plazas, and markets from Seattle and San Francisco to New York.

Complete Record: Shows projects designed to humanize metropolitan areas, interwoven with commentaries of architects, city planners and landscape designers. Discusses the problems automobiles have created, and reveals both radical and conservative measures that might be taken to restore cities to their inhabitants., Examines the aesthetic features of cities, emphasizing the need for marketplaces, plazas, and parks as focal points to draw people into active roles. Discusses the role of the automobile and the resulting neglect in building pedestrian walkways. Recommends design features which emphasize people and shows many successful parks, fountains, plazas, and markets from Seattle and San Francisco to New York.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.