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The American urban experience / a Films Incorporated presentation ; a presentation of Urban Land Institute ; produced by Urban Productions ; producer/director, Art Ciocco ; screenwriter, David Clow.
LIBRA DVD NA9105 .A64 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Understanding cities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- United States.
- Metropolitan areas--United States.
- Metropolitan areas.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (26 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Distributed by Insight Media, [2004?]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Traces the history of the American vision of what the city has been and could become, from the original intentions of George Washington for the nation's capital to current urban renewal projects. Demonstrates the manner in which changing technology, especially in production and transportation, has influenced the evolving form of the city and shows how American commitment to community is expressed in our metropolitan areas.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Edmund Bacon.
- Credits:
- Cameraman, Art Ciocco ; editor, Jane Ford ; music, Michael Bacon.
- Notes:
- Originally issued as a 16 mm. motion picture in 1983.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 61750864
- Publisher Number:
- 6888 Insight Media
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