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Designing healthy communities. Searching for Shangri-La / with host Richard Jackson ; executive producers & directors, Harry Wiland & Dale Bell ; producer, writer, editor, Beverly Baroff.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Health aspects--United States.
- City planning.
- City planning--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Sustainable urban development--United States.
- Sustainable urban development.
- Public health--United States.
- Public health.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (57 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Searching for Shangri-La
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : Media Policy Center, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for healthy, sustainable communities of all sizes and shapes that can serve as models for the rest of the nation. His journey takes him to Roseto, PA, Prairie Crossing, IL, New York City, Charleston, SC, and the forgotten 1960s urban renewal project of Lafayette Park in Detroit, MI, the brainchild of 4 men, including visionary architect, Mies van der Rohe. Also included are walkability expert, Dan Burden, and the 1960s, humorous but insightful, candid camera- style studies of people in public spaces by William Holly White.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 929481840
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