Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Understanding Cities

For the first time in civilization’s history, more people live in cities than outside of them. This program goes around the world to look at cities past and present with a focus on issues of transportation, electricity, light, water, sewage, and trash. The program examines differences between cities that have evolved over time and planned cities, such as Brazil’s capital and utopian experiment, Brasília, and Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán, the first planned city in Mesoamerica. Cameras explore the construction of a new line in London’s Underground and a new aqueduct in New York City. Portland is presented as a paradigm of modern urban planning. A Discovery Channel Production. (53 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29016
Copyright date: ©1996
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-4178-7
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-9907-2


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