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US. 2011. 85mins Director/producer Gary Hustwit Production company/ sales Swiss Dots Associate producers Lucy Raven, Pamela Puchalski Cinematography Luke Geissbuhler Editors Shelby Siegel,Michael Culyba


Urbanized REVIEWED BY DAVID D’ARCY


Urbanized confronts a future in which most people on Earth will live in cities, and most urban dwellings will be slums. To cite an alarming statistic, there is one toilet in a typical overcrowded city in the developing world for 900 people. Start wringing your hands. Gary Hustwit’s third feature documentary takes the tempera-


ture of cities, and recommends immediate treatment. Self-dis- tributed by the film-maker, Urbanized’s natural audience is museums and schools, and its scrutiny of metropolises on five continents could help it to reach television markets beyond North America. If the urban changes Hustwit foresees happen as soon as experts say they might, the shelf life of the film could be short. Urbanized is not a film for specialists, but an earnest distilla-


tion of an urban planning 101 course. It begins with a crash his- tory of cities and surveys the daunting challenge of sustainability and the risks posed by the vast majority of city-dwellers living without basic hygiene. As population grows exponentially, the challenges only become worse. Hustwit’s film could be a doomsday scenario, as many prog-


nostications about the urban future are. Yet the film-maker takes a cue from the architect Norman Foster: “As an architect, if you’re not an optimist, you’re not going to be able to survive professionally.” This attitude gives the film a motivational tone to its series of


case studies, presented for the general audience with a remark- able clarity, given their complexity. Shot by Luke Geissbuhler, Urbanized has its share of helicop-


ter aerial perspectives, but the camera tends to stay on the level where the experts say it matters, on the ground. Planning, we are told again and again, is it least as much


about politics as it is about design (Hustwit examined graphic design in 2007’s Helvetica, and took on industrial design in 2009’s Objectified). The production values are excellent, as is the film’s information. Hustwit builds a case for optimism, yet each encouraging


case he examines — from New York to Rio — could be replaced by many more desperate ones in those same cities. He does find urban reformers everywhere he travels, even in the poorest of places, but they are fighting tremendous odds.


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