The Historical Archive Sample Page
Vintage City Planning Two DVD Film Collection Urban Sprawl, Community Growth and Development, Urban
Redevelopment and Renewal, Roadway Planning and More This collection of vintage city planning films is a glimpse of state of the art urban planning and problems around the 1940's - 1950's.
This collection spans two DVDs and has a total run time of 2 hours 41 minutes. Here are the films that make up the vintage city planning collection.
- Our Community (1952) - This film highlights how all members of a community are interconnected - from the police and fire/rescue teams to the neighbors on your street.;
- The City (1939) - This film is a plea by The Regional Planning Association of America to pull urban communities together to prevent their decay and sprawl.;
- The Dynamic American City (1956) - This film explains why urban redevelopment and rebuilding of blighted neighborhoods and other steps are needed to keep our cities strong and robust.;
- Community Growth: Crisis and Challenge (1959) - A frank discussion by homebuilders against haphazardly planned suburban sprawl.;
- Arteries of New York City (1941) - A glimpse at the efforts to sensibly grow the transportation infrastructure in New York City.;
- Detroit: City on the Move (1965) - This is a promotional film made to promote Detroit as the place to hold the 1968 Olympic games. The film highlights the diversity of Detroit - its people, manufacturing, communities and much more.;
- A Place to Live (1948) - Shows efforts taken in Philadelphia to clear out slums and build solid housing for its citizens in its place.;
- Open Road (1951) - An educational film about steel, how it is used in the construction of modern roads and the problems that occur on roadways with time and heavy use.
Here are some sample clips from the DVD
Please visit Our About Me Page to Learn More about Us!
This product is a DVD. It is region free so it can play on DVD players anywhere in the world.
All our DVDs are professionally produced and packaged in DVD cases. This allows you to easily store them with your DVD collection. Our DVDs are designed to play on all home DVD players and all computer DVD players. They are region free, NTSC productions. Please be aware that in many instances, the master films of these old films are not of the same quality as a modern mega-million dollar production and from time to time, you may notice small quality imperfections that you would not see in a modern production.
View Our Other Products: To view a listing of all our hundreds of products currently available, click the link below:
View All Products<--
(Note: This will open a new browser window. )
Shipping and Handling: We offer a variety of shipping options via USPS. All options/shipping fees for your country are detailed in the listing shipping tab or when you check out. We ship in the United States and many international locations.
A special note to our international customers: We only charge shipping costs on our items (and shipping fees from the US are regrettably really that expensive.) We do not collect customs or any other country specific duties. Any such fees owed are your responsibility when the item arrives at your location.
Shipping is generally completed within one business day of purchase. Payment options: Our payment processor is PayPal
Guarantee :
All items are covered by a 30 day money back guarantee. Only the purchase price is refunded. Shipping is not refunded. Item must be sent back at buyer's expense and buyer must include the auction ID and method of payment with the item to receive a refund.
xygooberpie123
Feedback: We give positive feedback to all our paying customers at the time your product is shipped. To purchase your DVD for immediate delivery,
just click on the Buy It Now button at the bottom of the page.
Product and Product Advertisement Copyright THA New Media LLC - All Rights Reserved