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Ah man - this is one of the cooler things i've ever heard of. I first heard of it in PBS doco "Chicago: City of the Century". That documentary - is one of th
by an_aparallel 2y ago
Ah man - this is one of the cooler things i've ever heard of. I first heard of it in PBS doco "Chicago: City of the Century". That documentary - is one of the finest chronicles of modern society i've ever seen. The insights into psychology, civil engineering, and history are second to none. Most profound to me were the "design" of suburbs with the trappings we dont think very much of these days - libraries, pools, shopping centres and so on - were created to push "ideal lives" which were basically the dangled carrots of real estate empires. Brilliant stuff.
- ashryan 2y agoI just came across American Experience for the first time over the last week. What I've seen so far is incredible. This is their YouTube profile: https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS/featured https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS/featured Unfortunately, the doc you mention isn't on there. They do have the transcript on their site tho: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chicago/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chicago/
- an_aparallel 2y agoIndeed, Ken Burns docos are brilliant!
- NaOH 2y agoThose three American Experience episodes on Chicago can be found here (#s 157–159): https://archive.org/details/american-experience_20220511 https://archive.org/details/american-experience_20220511
- an_aparallel 2y agoThanks so much for linking this - wouldnt have thought to look for them at IA! Silly of me tbh :)