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What Is The City But The People?

1969-01-01 en 50m
Documentary
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 peek at the planning process. There's a lot that is gone from contemporary New York in this documentary: a gritty Hell's Kitchen, a robust Model Cities program, and 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.

Director

John Peer Nugent

Producer

John Peer Nugent

Writer

John Peer Nugent

Director

Gordon Hyatt

Editor

Lee Reichenthal

Director of Photography

Henry Javorsky

Status

Released

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