Sprawling from Grace
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.
Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, talks about the challenges of regional planning in the United States. As opposed to Europe where spatial planning prevails, the notion of urban planning is more dominant here, and Hoch uses the Chicago region as a case study.
Belinda Yuen, a town planner and expert in mass housing, presents an account of Singapore’s public housing, the evolution of concepts and strategies for high-rise urban planning, and the diverse common spaces that have been designed for a higher quality of life.