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Tuesday's Documentary: Towards Tomorrow: Super-City

on BBC One London

Your future is being created now - for better or for worse?

Some quite fantastic designs for the cities of the twenty-first century are already appearing on drawing boards all over the world. Advanced technology has now made it possible to build cities that are quite unlike anything anyone has lived in before.
Buckminster Fuller, Reyner Banham, Wilem Frischmann and Boyd Auger reveal in this filmed programme their ideas about what the city of the future will be like. Their projects, and the whole concept of cities are examined from the human angle by:

Lewis Mumford, author of The Culture of Cities
Dr. Terence Lee, psychologist
Tom Marcus, Professor of Building Science
Dr. John Calhoun of the United States National Institute of Health
The Rev. Chad Varah, Founder of the Samaritans

The question is will the cities of the future be worth living in? Will we learn from our past mistakes? Or will the psychoses that affect today's cities merely become super-psychoses when we start building super-cities?

Written by Stuart Harris

See page 29

Contributors

Interviewee:
Buckminster Fuller
Interviewee:
Reyner Banham
Interviewee:
Wilem Frischmann
Interviewee:
Boyd Auger
Interviewee:
Lewis Mumford
Interviewee:
Dr. Terence Lee
Interviewee:
Tom Marcus
Interviewee:
Dr. John Calhoun
Interviewee:
Rev. Chad Varah
Writer:
Stuart Harris
Series Editor:
Max Morgan-Witts
Producer:
Ramsay Short

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