Suburban living: six solutions

Duration: 60

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1960

Creator: International Film Bureau

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: The problems and advantages of suburban community planning are discussed in this comparative study of solutions tried in Great Britain, France, Holland, Sweden and Canada. Each suburb is designed to meet the inhabitants' requirements by incorporating thoughtfully located homes and apartments with various income brackets, shopping areas away from the main flow of traffic and beauty in the selection of the site itself., Discusses the solutions which have been sought to the problems of designing suburbs to serve the total needs of the people. Presents six suburban neighborhoods in London, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Marseille, and in North America, describing the different theories behind the development of each project.

Complete Record: The problems and advantages of suburban community planning are discussed in this comparative study of solutions tried in Great Britain, France, Holland, Sweden and Canada. Each suburb is designed to meet the inhabitants' requirements by incorporating thoughtfully located homes and apartments with various income brackets, shopping areas away from the main flow of traffic and beauty in the selection of the site itself. , Shows and discusses six suburbs: two near London and one each near Marseille, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, with the last being located in Canada. Each suburb is designed to meet the entire needs of man by incorporating thoughtfully located homes and apartments within various income brackets, shopping areas away from the main flow of traffic, and beauty in the selection of the site itself. Maintains that large-scale solutions are achieved through thoughtful planning and illustrates this point by showing actual living examples with theories behind each project and city planning in general., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.