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Two powerful documentaries about the social and environmental impacts of
suburban sprawl are now available on home video. The first, “Radiant
City“, combines the documentary form with some surrealistic touches in
an effort to show how far removed a vast subdivision of Calgary is from
the title of a 1935 Le Corbusier book: “La Ville radieuse“, or radiant
city. The second is “The Unforeseen“, which explores a struggle that
took place in Austin, Texas about 25 years ago between environmentalists
and some truly villainous real estate developers. If these two movies do
not convince you that suburbia is no longer sustainable or worth
sustaining for that matter, then nothing will.
