A friend of mine shared this on social media, recently, and I thought it was pretty extraordinary, if not for some of the accents alone. Here's the official description....
In 1969, The Department of City Planning in New York City developed a new city-wide plan. This documentary, produced and written by John Peer Nugent and narrated by notable urbanist William H. Whyte, was released on public television to provide a behind-the-scenes peak on the planning process. There's a lot is gone from contemporary New York in this documentary: a gritty Hell's Kitchen, a robust Model Cities program, acres of slums in Bedford Stuyvesant. But there's a lot that, for better or worse, is still the same: poverty and prosperity, diversity and wealth, greed and good intentions.
Check it out.
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