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CBC Television 1963 1 season 6 eps Ended

Lewis Mumford on The City

1963 1 season 6 eps

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Season 1

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Season 1

29 min

S1 · E1 May 22, 1963

The City: Heaven and Hell Episode 1

Outlines the opposed natures — creative and destructive — of the city throughout history, focusing on the elements that created the first cities about 5000 years ago and the forces that now threaten our "most precious collective invention."

29 min

S1 · E2 May 29, 1963

The City: Cars or People? Episode 2

A study of an old but still-growing problem: how to ensure the city is accessible to all without allowing cars to make it congested and uninhabitable.

8.2 · You

28 min

S1 · E3 Jun 5, 1963

The City and Its Region Episode 3

Explores the tension and mutual dependence of urban and rural areas. How can sprawling metropolitan regions maintain or restore the balance?

8.5 · You

29 min

S1 · E4 Jun 12, 1963

The Heart of the City Episode 4

A study of the growing sterility, dullness and congestion that is destroying the vitality, variety and human scale that once made cities physically attractive and humanly creative.

7.3 · You

28 min

S1 · E5 Jun 19, 1963

The City as Man's Home Episode 5

Contrasts the squalor of the working poor with the relative safety and security of the wealthy, asking what can be done to address "the spirit of social hopelessness" that thrives in the overcrowded slums where cities' poorest residents live.

8.1 · You

29 min

S1 · E6 Jun 26, 1963

The City and the Future Episode 6

An outline of the prospects for the city and some suggestions to restore its role as the focus of man's highest achievements.

8.1 · You

6 episodes in Season 1

Six-part series tracing the origins of the city, its transformations and prospects, based on Lewis Mumford's book The City in History. Aired by CBC in their Explorations strand.

Documentary

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Cast

2 people

Lewis Mumford

Self - Host

Budd Knapp

Self - Narrator (voice)

Also in

The Point

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Ian MacNeill Writer · Lewis Mumford Author · Guy Glover Executive producer

Writer

Ian MacNeill

Author

Lewis Mumford

Executive producer

Guy Glover

Composer

Robert Fleming

Total runtime 2h 54m · Episode length 29 min · Type Miniseries

Show info

Premiered

May 22, 1963

Final episode

June 26, 1963

Status

Ended

Network

CBC Television

Country

Canada

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

29 min

Total runtime

2h 54m

Original language

English

Production

O

ONF | NFB

Production

Canada

Produced in

Languages

Spoken on screen

English

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