December 16, 2011

1959 ULI Film on Urban Sprawl

It's interesting to see how our understanding of "efficient use of land" has changed over the last 50 years. The video, in many ways, is incredibly prescient in its diagnosis of the causes and effects of unchecked urban sprawl. Its ideas, however, for curing these problems seem somewhat antiquated and have become problems themselves, like the overuse of cul-de-sacs in planned unit developments. Either way, it's an interesting historical planning document that's worth watching.