While part one of this National Film Board doc entitled “To Build A Better City” deals with basic exposition on the evils of blight, part two (watch after the jump) is more solution-oriented, and that’s where the paternalistic, can-do-no-wrong attitude of our urban planning forebears really starts to terrify. You can also smell the pipe tobacco and hear strains of Dean Martin as the soothing voice of the narrator walks us through the proposed destruction of Strathcona and parts of Chinatown. Some of what he proposes, like the utopian housing projects between Gore/Jackson and Union/Keefer, actually went through. Almost predictably, instead of being the sunlit Shangri-La that he so confidently predicts, the high-rises and “maisonettes” therein are now considered by many in the community to represent the very same blight that the film scorns and warns us against…