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CoolCleveland Blog » biztech · Beyond the Motor City screening @ CMNH
June 3rd, 2010
Wed 6/9 @ 5:30PM
The transportation industry that built Detroit has hollowed the city out, leaving it longing for rebirth. What would a more sustainable urban future look like? Can Detroit and other rust belt cities (hello, Cle) reinvent themselves for the 21st century of transportation? And, what is the future of transportation? PBS’ documentary Beyond the Motor City discusses these issues and more. Catch it at a screening on Wed 6/9 @ the Cle Museum of Natural History.
Space is limited, so email an RSVP to bchaseATcmnh.org.
About the doc:
Beyond the Motor City, a new documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf (King Corn), examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America.
Narrated by Miles O’Brien, the film explores Detroit ’s historic investments in infrastructure—from early 19th-century canals to the urban freeways that gave The Motor City its name and made America ’s transportation system the envy of the world.
But over the last 30 years, much of the world has left Detroit —and America —behind, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation. In a journey that takes us into the neighborhoods of Detroit and then beyond to Spain, California, and our nation’s capital, Beyond the Motor City urges us to ask how we might finally push America ’s transportation system into the 21st century.
CMNH – 1 Wade Oval Dr.
http://PBS.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/on-the-road/home/1010
