Living City: A Critical Guide The Nature of Things : Season 48 Episode 12

Urban affairs columnist Christopher Hume discusses Canadian cities, both their history and current state. He speaks of what makes a good city: sustainability, compactness, walk-ability, a functioning infrastructure, the quality of design both at the urban and individual structure level, and especially for larger cities an efficient transportation network especially of non-single occupant vehicles. For those cities that have gone through difficult times of late, he also speaks of leveraging the public realm for urban revitalization. He takes an east to west cross country train trip ...