The City
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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Genre: Documentary
Director: Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke
Actors: Morris Carnovsky
Country: United States of America
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