by ronb | Dec 28, 2022 | History
Looking forward to 2023, we plan to release our first two 60 minute episodes in the Fall. And if fundraising efforts in the works come through, we will start production on the next three programs (housing, parks and families in the heart of the city) as well. While we...
by ronb | Dec 14, 2022 | History
The Garden Cities movement, propelled by British planner Ebenezer Howard in his turn of the 19th century writings, has been highly influential in the look of city and suburban neighborhoods. Seeking to meld the best of city living with the best of the countryside,...
by ronb | Nov 30, 2022 | History
Why was Pittsburgh selected as one of three focus cities for the opening episodes when we were already featuring Philadelphia? With Philly and LA covering both coasts, we wanted a Rust Belt or midwestern metropolis to round out our stories and Pittsburgh perfectly fit...
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,...
