American Makeover is a six-part web series on new urbanism, the antidote to sprawl. More info and content at www.americanmakeover.tv. Produced by First+Main Media.
Episode 1 was filmed on location in Atlanta, Georgia and Glenwood Park, a new urbanist influenced neighborhood near downtown Atlanta.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Directed/Shot/Edited: John Paget | PagetFilms.com
Animation/Graphics: Kerry Brogan
Producer: Chris Elisara
Creative: Drew Ward
Location Producer: Joanna Pritchard
Duration : 0:9:48
Portland: Quest for the Livable City is a documentary film and educational outreach project produced as a collaboration of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Northern Light Productions. Incorporating historic footage of Portland’s growth as the self-proclaimed “City that Works,” and recent interviews with city leaders and neighborhood residents during the battles over ballot measures on the land-use planning system, this one-hour documentary film chronicles the complex challenges of aspiring to be a more sustainable metropolis with a smaller carbon footprint. As cities across the country today attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, invest in transit, and focus on infill redevelopment as an alternative to car-dependent sprawl, the experience of Portland provides a cautionary tale for planning in the 21st century, involving issues of economic development, gentrification, local food and farming, property rights, and civic participation.
ANOTHER SITUATION WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO STAND UP TO THE DEVELOPERS AND THEIR ALLIES, BY OCCUPYING LAND THAT IS TO BE DEVOLPED-CODE FOR DECIMATED I’DE SAY. THERE LOTS OF BROWN FIELDS THAT COULD BE CLEANED UP AND USED BUT THE CITY’S AND DEVOLPERS DONT WANT TO ICCUR THE COSTS SO OUR FUTURE WILL, OUR CHILDREN WILL, OUR EARTHS ECOLOGY WILL. WHEN ARE THE SO CALLED LEADERS GOING TO GET IT-BUSINESS AS USUAL IS DEAD…… THE NORM MUST BE CHANGED….AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE CHANGE! SUPPORT THEM-EVEN IF IT MUST BE FROM THE SHADOWS SUPPORT THESE INITATIVES.
Interview with Grow Smart Rhode Island Exective Director Scott Wolf
February 19, 1958
Is urban sprawl a problem as the Sierra Club and other envirokooks say it is? Not hardly.
Produced by Melissa Paly
A perspective of smart growth in Taos, NM
American Planning Association Awards for 2007. The Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan was given to The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe in Ontario, Canada.
Stop 158 is an organization fighting urban sprawl and an unnecessary highway project in Southwestern Illinois. This video shows why it is important to save the farmland, the environment, and the quality of life in the region.