How to look at a city

Duration: 29

Year Published: 1964

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Eugene Raskin paints a word portrait of New York, as seen by lovers, adventurers, and the star-struck, against a background of jazz. He contrasts old neighborhoods with the bustle of the business world and discusses three fundamental standards used by architects and planners to judge the quality of a neighborhood - human scale, density, and variety., Pictures New York's ever-changing face as lovers, adventurers, and the star-struck see it: its building--some old and stately, and others new and monotonous; the pathos of the old neighborhood; and the bustle of the business world. Professor Eugene Raskin, architect and author, points to three fundamental standards used by architects and planners to judge the quality of a city's neighborhoods: human scale, density, and variety.

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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, New York Public Library, University of Maryland 16mm

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