Earthkeeping “Little Big Land”
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An episode of Earthkeeping, a television series produced in the early 1970s for WTTW that explores environmental, ecological and sociological issues.
Credits
DeWitt Beall (director); DeWitt Beall (producer); DeWitt Beall (writer); Barry Commoner (interviewee); Lewis Mumford (interviewee); Dennis Meadows (interviewee)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: DeWitt Beall Collection
Notes: Because of a rapidly increasing birth rate and land privatization in the United States, processes of urbanization are quickly taking over what were once farmlands and areas of nature. “Little Big Land” suggests that this is an unsustainable, short-term answer, and that we will soon once again need the farmlands we are tearing down. Predicting a trend of urban sprawl that will eventually create megalopolises, this episode of WTTW’s Earthkeeping series also proposes methods of preventing devastating city growth, including the creation of protected green belts.
Sponsor: WTTW (Television station)
Subjects: City and town life; Farming; Farms; Nature; City planning; Environment
Places: North America > United States
Language: English
Cfa elements: Reversal Positive Print, 1,000 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/11478
Notes: Because of a rapidly increasing birth rate and land privatization in the United States, processes of urbanization are quickly taking over what were once farmlands and areas of nature. “Little Big Land” suggests that this is an unsustainable, short-term answer, and that we will soon once again need the farmlands we are tearing down. Predicting a trend of urban sprawl that will eventually create megalopolises, this episode of WTTW’s Earthkeeping series also proposes methods of preventing devastating city growth, including the creation of protected green belts.
Sponsor: WTTW (Television station)
Subjects: City and town life; Farming; Farms; Nature; City planning; Environment
Places: North America > United States
Language: English
Cfa elements: Reversal Positive Print, 1,000 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/11478
Sources
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Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:12