Building Community: Exploring City Planning and Architecture Through Film

The City of Durango Community Development Department is hosting a free movie festival that includes a discussion on how urban design and architecture canSocial Life influence and define communities. “Building Community: Exploring City Planning and Architecture Through Film” will continue with a documentary film about the design of cities, Urbanized, at 5 p.m. July 19 at the Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio.

Schedule

Oct. 12: Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Jan. 11: TBD

For more information:
Savannah Lytle, (970) 375-4850 or email.

Playing Oct. 12

Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1974)

This highly influential film in architecture and planning circles by William H. Whyte analyzes the success and failures of urban spaces. Observing the natural order of spaces and the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban spaces and ways these spaces can be improved.