The Human Scale

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08/22/2015 Documentário sobre o urbanismo feito para a escala humana, cidades pequenas com prédios baixos. Trabalho participativo. See more 01/11/2015 Our future is terrifying, but knowing there's architects and city planners trying to make a difference gives me a grain of hope. See more 08/17/2014 Interesting and hopeful, rather than inspiring and optimistic. See more 07/26/2014 Everyone living in a big city should watch this. See more 02/04/2014 The Human Scale succeeds in promoting the importance of a well-built urban environment by pointing out just what is important to people. By studying people and how they react to their built environment, Gehl was able to transform places like Times Square into a pedestrian paradise. See more 08/05/2013 Like 2011 doco Urbanised, The Human Scale deals with the shaping of modern cities to avoid the mistakes of the past and to make urban dwelling more enjoyable and efficient as humanity shifts towards a highly urbanised future. In a swift global survey the film charts the sometimes painful process of challenging car-centric sprawl in the face of vested interests and outdated worldviews. From an Antipodean perspective, the chapters on smarter growth in Melbourne and the grueling reconstruction in Christchurch (with doomy music for Gerry Brownlee's attempted usurpation of the public-led city plan) are close to home. But it's the eye-opening dilemmas faced by the tumultuous 'giga-cities' of India, Bangladesh and China that are where the fate of 21st century humanity is being decided. The chapter on Dhaka was most worrying - gaining half a million population every year, the city is increasingly prone to devastation and huge loss of life from even relatively mild earthquakes as building standards are shirked and ground-water is squandered. See more Read all reviews

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