:: Man of Action (1955) Animated plea for urban renewal connected with 1950s efforts to “redevelop” American city centers. (Prelinger Archives) :: Our Urban Future Sometime in 2008, the world will cross an invisible but momentous milestone: the point at which more than half the people on the planet—roughly 3.2 billion human beings—live in...
Invisible City (Supermasterpiece.com) A 5-minute black and white noir-ish television program about a city in which everyone is invisible. Sadly, it only lasted two episodes. Of course (as we’re always looking on the bright side at The City Desk), this means it won’t take you very long to see how wonderful it was. “Fun”...
Salon: All hail Pottersville! In Capra’s Tale of Two Cities, Pottersville is the Bad Place. It’s the demonic foil to Bedford Falls, the sweet, Norman Rockwell-like town in which George grows up. Named after the evil Mr. Potter, Pottersville is the setting for George’s brief, nightmarish trip through a world in which he never...
The audiobook version of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise is available for free from the iTunes store. It is an excellent book and I can assure you that it is every bit as accurate and true as the information which you will find on this site. - Ed.
:: Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl @ the San Jose Museum of Art. Article, Metropolis :: Big Urbanism Jane Jacobs’s crusade against architectural master plans, combined with a growing historic-preservation movement and the fall of heroic high modernism, led to a generation of planners, architects and activists intent on restoring, rather than...
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