Miniseries
6 episodes · May 22, 1963
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S1E1The City: Heaven and Hell
May 22, 196329mOutlines the opposed natures — creative and destructive — of the city throughout history, focusing on the elements that created the first cities about 5000 years ago and the forces that now threaten our "most precious collective invention."
S1E2The City: Cars or People?
May 29, 196329mA study of an old but still-growing problem: how to ensure the city is accessible to all without allowing cars to make it congested and uninhabitable.
S1E3The City and Its Region
Jun 5, 196328mExplores the tension and mutual dependence of urban and rural areas. How can sprawling metropolitan regions maintain or restore the balance?
S1E4The Heart of the City
Jun 12, 196329mA study of the growing sterility, dullness and congestion that is destroying the vitality, variety and human scale that once made cities physically attractive and humanly creative.
S1E5The City as Man's Home
Jun 19, 196328mContrasts the squalor of the working poor with the relative safety and security of the wealthy, asking what can be done to address "the spirit of social hopelessness" that thrives in the overcrowded slums where cities' poorest residents live.
S1E6The City and the Future
Jun 26, 196329mAn outline of the prospects for the city and some suggestions to restore its role as the focus of man's highest achievements.