The City
1939 · 0h 44m · Documentary · United States of America
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
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Morris Carnovsky6.0Smart score
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