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Looking Glass

 Films are a mosaic of socio-cultural, economic and geographical conditions that represent the nuances of the relationship of the core and the periphery, and the governors and the governed. Films capture a city at a particular time and often showcase the city’s best and worst. Weaved in the story of the protagonist or sometimes in...[read more]

The genius of the old ways, near Cortona in the 1950's If universal questions about the dynamics of place need a stage to be answered, there is no better theater than Cortona, Italy, home to Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun, and a symbol of the romantic ambience of a simpler life. There, American expatriate and film producer Sarah...[read more]

Credit: Brendan LynchI love visiting a city for the first time – seeing something entirely new, experiencing another way of life, and stumbling upon something that reminds me of home. I love how in older cities you can see the history of the place unfold before your eyes whether it’s through rust-covered structures serving new purposes,...[read more]

     This new documentary about cities, planning, and architecture really looks promising.  Christopher Hawthorne writes in the Los Angeles Times: “The film, which premiered this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, features interviews with the architects Rem Koolhaas, Yung Ho Chang, Alejandro Aravena and...[read more]

Seattle-based writer and futurist Alex Steffen (left) joins Gary Hustwit on stage As a survey text in visual form, Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized is a frank introduction to the buzz about cities in our age of right-minded sustainability. Lurking amid the narration and vignettes is a scalable world view where the car is no longer king, and...[read more]

I recently saw The Science of Sleep, a fabulous film for those of us dreamers out there who don’t always see the world as it is. And with all the talk all over the web about creating sustainable cities….I think everyone is just making things far too complicated and perhaps this movie has it all figured out. Just build the entire...[read more]

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Cincinnati Preservation Association (CPA) and the Greenhills Historical Society are co-sponsoring the world premiere of "Green Towns USA: A New Deal" on Friday ay 7:30 p.m. at the Sharonville Fine Arts Center, 11165 Reading Road.Focusing heavily on the community of Greenhills, the 56-minute film explores the three "green towns" built...[read more]

At Social Media Today, we've been focused on the issues surrounding urban sustainability for a long time. It was that interest that drove us to create The Energy Collective more than a year ago.Among the many things we've learned from being part of the electric dialogue at The Energy Collective, two stand out. First, the technology and...[read more]