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The Human Scale
This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.
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Multimedia | film profile
Patagonia Rising. A Frontier Story of Water and Power
Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.
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Behind the Blue Veil
This film examines the situation of the Tuareg people, who live across borders and at risk from poverty, environmental disasters, and militant groups.
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Most—Nachruf auf eine Alte Stadt [Most—An Old Town's Obituary]
The film tells the story of the town Most in Northern Bohemia, destroyed in the quest for coal.
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Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.
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"Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake"
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.
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"Environmental Migration as Planned Livelihood Among the Rebaris of Western Rajasthan, India"
This paper suggests that environmental migration in western Rajasthan, once viewed as a response to drought and famine, has also developed into a planned livelihood strategy.
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“Urbanists and the Environment Between Technique and Politics: The Case of Italy from the Sixties to the Present”
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
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"Big Science and the Enchantment of Growth in Latin America"
The central theme of this article is the mirage of growth that spread in Latin American countries under the influence of the United States, during and after World War II. This historical period had significant material consequences on world landscapes, as well as a symbolic impact through the rise of the ideal of Big Science, which aggravated the material environmental impacts.