The City and the environment
Description
This program focuses on three facets of the urban ecosystem: the underground infrastructure that enables a city to function; traffic and the increasingly complex technologies required to manage it; and the trees in the city and the ongoing effort to protect city trees from the effects of urban pollution.
Runtime
23 min
Subjects
- Human geography (324)
- Nature (209)
- Social change (532)
- Environmental geography (78)
- Urban geography (61)
- Social ecology (250)
- Water (318)
- Urbanization (175)
- Land use (186)
- Population policy (78)
- Human ecology (350)
- Rural-urban migration (144)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c1993
Database
Films on Demand
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