Earthkeeping “Little Big Land”
Film Identifier: F.2012-01-0034
Part Of: DeWitt Beall Collection
Run Time
0h 26m 0s
0h 26m 0s
Format
16mm
16mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Optical
Optical
Date Produced
1972
1972
Abstract
Because of a rapidly increasing birth rate and land privatization in the United States, processes of urbanization are quickly taking over what were once farmlands and areas of nature. “Little Big Land” suggests that this is an unsustainable, short-term answer, and that we will soon once again need the farmlands we are tearing down. Predicting a trend of urban sprawl that will eventually create megalopolises, this episode of WTTW’s Earthkeeping series also proposes methods of preventing devastating city growth, including the creation of protected green belts.
Because of a rapidly increasing birth rate and land privatization in the United States, processes of urbanization are quickly taking over what were once farmlands and areas of nature. “Little Big Land” suggests that this is an unsustainable, short-term answer, and that we will soon once again need the farmlands we are tearing down. Predicting a trend of urban sprawl that will eventually create megalopolises, this episode of WTTW’s Earthkeeping series also proposes methods of preventing devastating city growth, including the creation of protected green belts.
Main Credit
Beall, DeWitt (is director)
Beall, DeWitt (is producer)
WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.) (corporate name)
Additional Credits
Beall, DeWitt (is writer)
Actors, Performers and Participants
Commoner, Barry (is interviewee)
Mumford, Lewis (is interviewee)
Meadows, Dennis (is interviewee)
Genre
Related Place
United States (depicts)