Originally broadcast on the television program Nightline on July 31, 1998. Many think that America's metropolitan areas are becomming ugly through suburban sprawl and box design.
Cars are now elevated above people and isolation is elevated above community.
New urbanists maintain that Americans used to be able to build communities that work and can do so again. After a survey of new urban communities, Forrest Sawyer interviews Andres Duany, a new urbanist, about city planning. Films Incorporated, 1984. Traces the history of the American vision of what the city has been and could become, from the original intentions of George Washington for the nation's capital, to current renewal projects in today's cities. American Architectural Foundation, c1996.