City Visions
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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.
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- Produced by
- Jan Erik Kongshaug
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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.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q31081286 ↗ — year, credits
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