MEGA-CITIES:
Innovation for Urban Life
Produced by Versatile Productions
56 Minutes * Ages 15 to Adult * 1996
Mega-Cities illustrates nine different creative solutions for urban problems, led by the Planning Group of the Los Angeles Mega-Cities Project. By the year 2000 more than half of the world¹s population will live in cities. It is projected that 23 of these cities will be “mega-cities” with more than 10 million people each. Despite their varying political, economic, social and cultural characteristics, all of them face a common problem. Cities must be viable for the predicted unprecedented numbers of citizens, yet live within limited budgets and severe environmental constraints.

Urban Leadership Programs enable innovative neighborhood leaders to replicate their approaches in other neighborhoods, expand them to serve a larger area, share them with their peers in other cities, or incorporate them into urban policy. Megacities has fieldsite teams set up in twenty cities on five continents and is a leader in innovative solutions to urban problems.

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