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In French. 1955 documentary about traffic planning in Montreal. How did the modernist traffic planners handle the rise of the automobile on streets designed for horse travel?

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The futuristic world of 1960, as seen in the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World Fair. So many aspects of this prediction did come to pass in one way or another.

"Biodiversity warrior" Cary Fowler explains the dwindling biodiversity of modern agriculture and the looming consequences of changing climates on global food security.
He describes the incredible and resilient global seed bank project, located in remote northern Norway.

A fantastic stop motion film created by Jason Owen for an assignment on the "meaning of home"

An explanation of charrettes for The Mountain Landscapes Initiative, where citizens from North Carolina's seven westernmost counties are working to develop a "toolbox" of growth management strategies.

Deconstructing gender-based archetypes in Temple Square.

"Queer Neighborhoods of the Future"
Finale Roundtable in Popular Series.
March 27, 2007

"Queer in the City: GLBT Neighborhoods and Urban Planning"
Co-Sponsored by GLBT Historical Society and Castr...

Former Mayor and founder of Bus Rapid Transit, Jaime Lerner sat down with me during my visit to discuss how and why he made the first pedestrian street in the middle of downtown Curitiba.

Rua XV de Novembro (15th of November Street) is a vital artery through downtown Curitiba. In 1972 under the direction of then Mayor Jaime Lerner, it became the first major pedestrian street in Brazil. The first phase of closing the street to automobiles and opening it to people took place in only 72 hours. The pedestrian

Portland claims it is the "mecca" of urban planning, but Disney has Portland beat by a long shot. Look at some of Disneyland's great development and transit options, many of which are missing in Portland

22@Barcelona project transforms two hundred hectares of industrial land of Poblenou into an innovative district offering modern spaces for the strategic concentration of intensive knowledge-based activities. This initiative is also a project of urban refurbishment and a new model of city providing a response to the challenges posed by the knowledge-based society.

It is the most important project of urban transformation of Barcelona city of the last years and one of the most ambitious of Europe of these c

A visit to Shanghai triggers an immediate wide-awake daydream about the future. Whether you're here for a week or a year, a resident or a visitor you cant get over the skyline. You will see elevated highways, a high speed train, a metro, traffic jams and electric bicycles that glide by silently - and you wont forget for one minute that this is the fastest growing city in the world. Its stimulus overload.

The Urban Planning Council of Abu Dhabi (UPC) appointed Squint Opera to create a short film illustrating their grand Urban Planning Guide for Abu Dhabi. The film is presented at Cityscape Abu Dhabi from the 13th to the 15th of May 2008.
The film communicates the principles and visualises the UPC plans for the expansion of the city to attract investors, developers and architects. The UPC commissioned this film as an awe-inspiring vision demonstrating the scale, ambition and radical nature of the plan.

Ho Chi Minh City is booming. To meet major challenges in urban planning the economic capital of Vietnam is developing cooperation policies with Europe. France is one of its privileged partne

What makes a downtown district appealing? Why do people go out of their way to walk down one side of the street and not the other? Using the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan as a case study, this exploration of successful downtown streets weaves together pedestrian interviews with footage of streetscapes and sidewalk behavior to show what healthy blocks have in common.

UBC Professor William Rees argues that climate change is a symptom of a deeper dysfunctional relationship between the human enterprise and the ecosphere.

The Federal government recently passed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in an attempt to address the deepening economic recession. Congressman Gerald Conolly (VA); Councilmember at-large Kwame Brown, District of Columbia; and Steve Sandherr, CEO, The Associated General Contractors of America discussed what the stimulus means for the Washington, D.C. region. WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi moderates.

Everyone can name great public places, such as parks, squares, and outdoor markets found in cities across the country. But what makes these places work? Why do people seek them out and congregate there in large groups? And what makes some of public spaces “greener?" In an effort to provide a “decoder ring” to reveal what makes these places so successful, the National Building Museum presents a series of mini-documentaries that identify the specific elements that help make Great Green Places.

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Everyone can name great public places, such as parks, squares, and outdoor markets found in cities across the country. But what makes these places work? Why do people seek them out and congregate there in large groups? And what makes some of public spaces “greener?" In an effort to provide a “decoder ring” to reveal what makes these places so successful, the National Building Museum presents a series of mini-documentaries that identify the specific elements that help make Great Green Places.

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Everyone can name great public places, such as parks, squares, and outdoor markets found in cities across the country. But what makes these places work? Why do people seek them out and congregate there in large groups? And what makes some of public spaces “greener?" In an effort to provide a “decoder ring” to reveal what makes these places so successful, the National Building Museum presents a series of mini-documentaries that identify the specific elements that help make Great Green Places.

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