This Space Available
Description
With billboards choking cityscapes around the world, a global grassroots movement has sprouted that is uniting concerned citizens with visionary politicians, enlightened business leaders, and outraged street artists in a fight against visual pollution. This Space Available explores efforts to reclaim commercially usurped public spaces as it takes an incisive look at the differences between the Baby Boomer generation, which spawned the excess in advertising, and today's young adults-the most marketed-to generation in history. Complex issues of economics, urban development, public space, aesthetics, and more are confronted as the documentary grapples with the question of who public space is for.
Runtime
86 min
Subjects
- Branding (Marketing) (220)
- Advertising (278)
- Pollution (254)
- Mass media and culture (147)
- Art appreciation (292)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Business ethics (382)
- Social ecology (250)
- Advertising, Outdoor (3)
- Urbanization (175)
- Rural-urban migration (144)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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