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Urban Issues
22 film(s) found
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Like thousands of New Yorkers who lived downtown, the filmmaker witnessed close-up the horrific events of 9/11. She grabbed her video camera and documented what it was like to reconstruct one's living space and life after the devastating event. more »
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Street tough and very vulnerable, this young girl has honed her survival skills. more »
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Between Two Rivers shines a spotlight on Cairo, Illinois, a historic town still dogged by its history of civil rights unrest, located between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, where North meets South in America’s heartland. more »
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Independent filmmaker Carla Wilson documents the exodus of Black people from the inner-city, tracking folks from Chicago as they migrate west to small-town Iowa City, where they struggle to establish roots. more »
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Before long, more than 550 cities worldwide will have a population of more than one million people. With such rapid and unplanned growth, many of these cities lack the planning and infrastructure to accommodate this population boom. Cities on Speed shows how four metropolises are rising to this challenge. What are the visions for solving their deepest issues, and will they be successful? more »
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In the early 1990s, Bogotá was a city with significant problems: social inequality, pollution, out-of-control population growth, and poor public transportation. When Antanas Mockus, a university president, became mayor in 1993, his experimental leadership transformed the city. more »
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When Cairo’s population remained at twelve million people, the city was neat and tidy. Today, Cairo has mushroomed to an estimated twenty million inhabitants. To keep up with the waste of the growing populace, six giant garbage villages have evolved into towns within the city. As the issues—and the garbage piles—visibly mount, officials struggle to determine how to keep the city’s trash in check. more »
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In the world's largest democracy, urban planning can be a complicated task. Despite Mumbai’s exploding population, a collapsing infrastructure could put an end to economic growth. Public trains are filled to the bursting point and traffic is nearing a complete gridlock. But officials are hopeful that building an eight lane highway out at sea will help relieve the strain of the overwrought transportation systems. more »
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Shanghai is a unusual city, bursting with four thousand skyscrapers, thousands of miles of highway, millions of citizens, and thousands of government planners. To make way for new skyscrapers, roads, and industries, vast communities are being expropriated. Can government influence help control Shanghai’s growing pains? more »
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A portrait of the Electric Boogie Boys, a hip hop dance group from the South Bronx. For them street dancing is a form of self-expression and a way to cope with their environment. more »
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The film tells the story of the building of a great bridge, and of its brilliant engineer, Othmar Amman, more »
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After being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, the legendary LA graffiti artist Tempt One gets his creative voice back through an unlikely friendship with a perfect stranger. more »
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An intimate portrayal of the lives of three runaway girls. All are the victims of heartbreaking family life, yet each shows the capacity of life-affirming resilience. more »
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Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
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Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago when he traveled to Mason City, Iowa, in 1908 to design a unique business block—a bank and adjoining hotel facing a park. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the decaying hotel. more »
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South Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, opened in 1866, was once hailed as one of the shortest and most important waterways in the world. It is also one of the world’s dirtiest. With humor, the film shows how the community is trying to clean up the canal. more »
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Rough, raw, and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of today's creative counter-culture that rose out of a the search for authenticity in a world of growing consumerism and confusion. more »
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This film looks at the issues of urban gentrification and preservation in Beijing today, as the old neighborhoods are being demolished for 'development' more »
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Mr. Wong is a wealthy business man who returned to China from Canada. He has made it his mission to rescue historic buildings of old Shanghai that would otherwise fall prey to the wrecking ball during an unprecedented building boom. more »
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This film shares the words of Irish priest Father Doyle, who came to Camden, New Jersey, 40 years ago and never left. His poetry bears witness to a horrendous crime: the total neglect of America’s poorest city. more »
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When a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to change the character and possibly contribute environmental waste to the small city of Hudson, N.Y., its citizens are galvanized into action. more »
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The first and largest federally funded artists’ colony in the United States, Westbeth became home to a generation of artists grateful for cheap rent and a place to live and work. Since 1970 the west Greenwich Village site has provided a home to artists who range from emerging to well-established and represent a wide variety of disciplines. more »
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