Urbanized is an exceptional documentary that compares different cities, the tensions in development and the programming that cities promote. NYC and the High Line are featured. I can't help but wish that the story of NYC was more similar to the one for Bogota, Colombia. I love the perspective that "parking is not a right," but rather transportation should be public, and therefore more inclusive and democratic. According to the UN World Urbanization Prospects Report, NYC and Newark are expected to grow by over one million people by 2030 (UN 2014, 26), which suggests that transportation constraints will also grow tighter.
Sources:
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2014. World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights (ST/ESA/SER.A/352).
Urbanized. Directed by Gary Hustwit. 2011. London: Swiss Dots.
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