by ronb | Nov 16, 2022 | History
The City Beautiful movement, popularized by the gleaming White City of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, made our cities more beautiful, but did it make them more livable? With poverty and pollution overwhelming cities in the late 19th century, the City Beautiful was...
by ronb | Nov 2, 2022 | History
As a contrast with historic Philadelphia and industrial Pittsburgh, we chose to highlight the evolution of Los Angeles in our opening episodes because the sprawling, multi-centric metropolis has pretty much defined urban growth in the 20th and now 21st centuries. LA...
by ronb | Oct 5, 2022 | History
Why did we film so much in Philadelphia for our first two episodes now being edited that trace the evolution of North American cities from the turn of the 19th century through today? If one had a checklist of all the things cities have tried to remake themselves,...
