From Sully we share notes and the trailer for Urbanized:

[T]here are so many shared characteristics between cities that they can always learn from one another, the film argues. Two of the projects featured in Urbanized—a community-building effort in a Cape Town township and a mass protest against a rail project in Stuttgart—emphasize the social implications of citymaking and design. “Ninety-nine percent of the shape of the city is a result of the top-down approach, at least in the formal design,” [Hustwit] says. “Those projects that seem to work best are the ones using people in the city as the compass for deciding what the solution should be.”

PS. The film is by Gary Hustwit, the same fellow who gave us the fascinating documentary Helvetica.

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