The landscape is a familiar one to urban dwellers - towering impersonal buildings made of cold glass and steel usurping blocks and blocks of city streets, surrounded by eight lanes of cars bumper to bumper, white lights and red creeping through a toxic sunset - for every car leaving, there's another one coming in - a perfect visual metaphor of the circulatory system that feeds and feeds off of these power centers, as Garth Sheriff calls them. Where are the people who live in the shadows of these buildings, who have no cars, who walk to and from their destinations, who don't have bank accounts and credit cards. Where do their children go to school, where are the playing fields, the parks? If the profit motive continues to roll over the needs of the inner city, what does the future look like? Which is the point of this hard look at the contemporary urban landscape.

directed by Fred Johnson
featuring
Edward Sosa, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
David Harvey, Geographer
Sister Christine, Action for Secure Housing
Carl Trimble, Architect and Planner
Garth Sheriff, Architect