Hybrid City
The landscape is a familiar one to urban ... 
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Producer(s)
Fred Johnson
Theme
Urban Space, Architecture, Communications
The landscape is a familiar one to urban dwellers - towering impersonal buildings made of old 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 what 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. 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.
Produced and Directed by Fred Johnson
For the BBC 2 Community Programme Unit, with Architects, Planners, Designers for Social Responsibility
Featuring Edward Soja, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, UCLA
David Harvey, Geographer
Sister Christine, Action for Secure Housing
Carl Trimble, Architect and Planner
Garth Sheriff, Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility
DVD 28:30
1992