{"id":6678,"date":"2013-05-30T01:49:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2013-05-30T01:49:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:49:43","slug":"film-human-scale-the-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6678","title":{"rendered":"Film: Human Scale, The (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Genre: Documentary \/ Urban Planning \/ Architecture \/Hot Docs 2013<\/p>\n

Synopsis: Persuavive documentary on architectural ethnographer Jan Gehl and the movement to restore life to big city dead zones after decades of bad urban planning.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is nothing to fear from growth; you only fear unplanned growth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Writer \/ director Andreas Dalsgaard meticulously shows how self-described architectural ethnographer Jan Gehl has used his native Copenhagen as a model of urban planning and a working template for cities with ailing, depopulated, car-centric downtown cores, and throughout the doc\u2019s first two-thirds we\u2019re shown how affected cities like New York, Chongqing, and Melbourne reinvigorated dead zones into functioning social and economic centres.<\/p>\n

Le Corbusier\u2019s brand of urban planning – where leisure and work activities are restricted to physically disparate locales – is a key villain in The Human Scale<\/strong>, and the doc\u2019s final third offers up two affecting case studies: the messed up, over-populated, World Bank funded schemes pushing Dhaka past the point of no return; and Christchurch, with its earthquake ravaged downtown core that must be redesigned and rebuilt from scratch.<\/p>\n

Dalsgaard could\u2019ve made a shrill, anti-car rallying cry for change, but instead we\u2019re shown sane arguments with solutions whose tangibility is restricted only by bad governance, bad habits, and narrow minds.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Return to: Home \/\u00a0Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews \/ H . Film: Very Good\/ DVD Transfer: \u00a0n\/a\u00a0\/ DVD Extras: n\/a Label: n\/a\/ Region: n\/a\u00a0\/\u00a0Released: n\/a Genre: Documentary \/ Urban Planning \/ Architecture \/Hot Docs 2013 Synopsis: Persuavive documentary on architectural ethnographer Jan Gehl and the movement to restore life to big city dead zones after decades […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2057,2056,461,2055],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1JI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}