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Aug 28

The Human Scale - Our Beautiful City

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema's series on the future of Toronto returns with this stunning survey of the world's megacities and the efforts of revolutionary Danish city planner Jan Gehl to re-think and re-design them on a smaller scale: the human scale. Around 1950, Gehl argues, city planning took on a very specific direction: "bird shit architecture." Driven by the rapid influx of cars, cities were designed to look good from a plane, ignoring the needs of humans below. The Human Scale explores how Gehl’s vision of a human megacity—intimate, lively, safe, sustainable and healthy—is being implemented in places like New York, Chongqing, Copenhagen and Melbourne.

Join us for a post-screening discussion with Amanda O'Rourke, the Executive Director of 8 80 Cities, a Toronto-based non-profit working to create healthier, happier and more equitable cities around the world.

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

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Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
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Canada

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- [ Add to Calendar ] 2018-08-28 18:30:00 2018-08-28 19:47:00 The Human Scale - Our Beautiful City <p>Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema's series on the future of Toronto returns with this stunning survey of the world's megacities and the efforts of revolutionary Danish city planner Jan Gehl to re-think and re-design them on a smaller scale: the human scale. Around 1950, Gehl argues, city planning took on a very specific direction: "bird shit architecture." Driven by the rapid influx of cars, cities were designed to look good from a plane, ignoring the needs of humans below.</p>

506 Bloor St West
Toronto ON M5S 1Y3
Canada

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