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"Displace" - the best word to describe the current state of humankind and this planet earth. Displace is both negative and positive.

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The Story Of Sprawl: How Cars Ate America (Video Review)

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In 1966 Woody Allen released his first movie, What’s Up Tiger Lily, that some people think is his best. He took a Japanese gangster movie and dubbed over a hilariously funny sound track of his own.

In 2009, Tim Halbur, Managing editor of the urban planning website Planetizen channelled his inner Woody Allen and did much the same thing, taking a collection of films about planning from 1939 through 1965 and overdubbing commentary from planners and writers like James Howard Kunstler, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and hilarity ensues in The Story of Sprawl.

Jim Kunstler is an extremely funny man, and he is handed such a gift, commenting on Lewis Mumford’s 1939 film The City. I tried to watch it with Kunstler turned off (the default option, you have to change audio tracks to get the commentary) and it was unbearable. But turn on Kunstler and Duncan Crary’s commentary, and it becomes 31 minutes of fun.