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Suburban Living: Six Solutions
196058 min 55 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Richard Gilbert
Production: Ian MacNeillGuy Glover
Script: Richard GilbertIan MacNeill
A comparison of solutions to the problems of suburban living as found in some of the world's largest cities--London, Marseille, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Toronto. This film shows housing to delight, amaze, and even provoke. Shown is Marseille's famous community on stilts, with stores, homes, and playgrounds all within one vertical neighbourhood. Town planners and architects discuss trends and problems.
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Subject categories
- Foreign Countries > Belgium and the NetherlandsFranceGreat BritainInternational PerspectivesScandinavia
- Urbanism > Foreign CountriesHousing and Public HousingOntarioPortraitsSuburbsUrban Development
- Architecture > Foreign CountriesUrban RenewalUrbanism
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
- Geography > Territory: Urban
Credits
- director
- Richard Gilbert
- producer
- Ian MacNeill
- executive producer
- Guy Glover
- script
- Richard Gilbert
- Ian MacNeill
- camera
- Eugene Boyko
- sound
- André Hourlier
- George Croll
- editing
- Dennis Sawyer
- sound editing
- Fred Anders
- participant
- Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
- James Albert Murray
- technical advisor
- Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
- original music composer
- Maurice Blackburn
- Eldon Rathburn
- Robert Fleming