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Higher priority in other words whether shell be residential or industrial whether it shall be a hotel or apartment in Honolulu one of the more popular places to live is St. Louis heights. If the state had not placed what was left of them in the conservation zone these hills would have been obliterated completely. It stopped development primarily to protect the Honolulu water supply but also to preserve some vestiges of nature in the urban area in the Santa Monica mountains of Southern California. Public safety is much more of a problem and yet development continues virtually unchecked. Geologists consider the mountains a junk heap inherently unstable susceptible to mudslides and flooding and less developed with extreme caution. The California open space study recommended that half the undeveloped mountains be preserved for recreation. The city of Los Angeles has preferred to let developers tear the mountains apart and rebuild them so people could live in but the department of building and safety once called their castles in the air.
No accurate death count has been made. Estimates range up to 101 dad in January. Are simply going away for some other purpose
agricultural land that. Could be. Stopped in their tracks. California law. Can be divisive as a preservationist. We. Are.
Confident. Think and out of this fellow's computer will get this Michael's map with you
thinking that which one but this is still just a dream. How do we get from here to there. Well I think the first most important thing is the result to let people live with one. Most of live too often imbibe the choice of a sample survey and asked people what are the three films of physical and by an ecological and the theory of the country to find out what led up as victims of environmental choice and then match the choices of the people to the promises and from this mess. But you said you were going to get a new environment of choice. People have to live in the big cities. That's where their jobs are. Thing about this is they don't. All cities we live in a part of the conception of bondage the oil industry chooses. Housing picks an option and Recreation has the ticket as if I were going to the whole situation. But I was once and just had to be based transportation. This is no longer true. Absolutely liberated from economic that I was.
Talking planning on a massive scale absolutely unimaginable scale is different from the present is night and day. We must think of analogies like the passion with nations and where walk to and the best analogy of courses of action gauged this nation united and the revolution is complete the physical environment that is a bird of this great American. This is what the dyke. Is not only to achieve equity and justice. That's a patient man. But to make this vision clear in our cities.
Series
Public Broadcast Laboratory
Episode Number
215
Episode
Multiply and Subdue the Earth. Part 2
Producing Organization
National Educational Television and Radio Center
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-53jwt6th
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Episode Description
Multiply and Subdue the Earth, a report on how Americans are turning their once glorious natural environments into poisonous wastelands, is broadcast on Public Broadcast Laboratory on Sunday evening, March 9. The PBL episode, seen on NET's coast-to-coast network of affiliates, shows how hastily planned suburban developments are choking the life out of the cities they depend upon. "Slurbs" - suburban developments springing up helter-skelter around American towns and cities - are usually built with little regard for the natural life of the region. In the process, vital resources are devastated and future water supply imperiled. "Slurbs" often take over agricultural land essential to future food supply. In the broadcast ecologist and regional planner Ian McHarg states that the U.S. will need all its existing prime agricultural land by the year 2000, when the total population is expected to pass 300,000,000. The spread of the "slurbs" may also, according to experts, have psychic effects on populations' cur off from meadows, forests, lakes, and rivers. The broadcast highlights the findings of Dr. John Calhourn, psychologist at the National Institute of Health, who spent years observing the effects of over-crowding on rats. The episode links Calhourn's findings to the conclusion of a massive psychiatric study of midtown Manhattan by a team from Cornell University Medical College. Eighty-two percent of midtown Manhattan's population was found to exhibit varying degrees of pathology. Dr. Calhourn's overcrowded rats began to show such symptoms as sexual deviation and total withdrawal. Broadcast shows how poor or no ecological planning led to such catastrophes as the recent mud slides in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. Ranging from the New Jersey seashore to the Hawaiian Islands, the episode depicts both good and bad adaptation to the natural life and structure of the land. Bulldozing New Jersey sand dunes to flatten out ocean front home sites renders houses vulnerable to any storm and the entire beach subject to erosion. In Hawaii, on the other hand, the state has taken land zoning powers away from local governments and has insured the preservation of open spaces. Other areas examined during the broadcast include Baltimore, the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, and three aspects of California - including the threatened destruction of Lake Tahoe, which Mark Twain called the "fairest picture the whole earth affords." Tahoe, one of the world's clearest lakes, may turn pea green within a few years as a result of jerry built developments all around its shores. At the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, ecologist Ian McHarg interviews Indians incensed by a plan for a picnic area at a lake they consider sacred. Also appearing in the broadcast is Alfred E. Heller, president of California Tomorrow, a conservationist group. "Multiply and Subdue the Earth" was produced by PBL producer Austin Hoyt at WGBH-TV, Boston. Cameraman was Peter Hoving. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1969-03-09
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Environment
Nature
Science
Architecture
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:07:51
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Credits
Camera Operator: Hoving, Peter
Interviewee: McHarg, Ian
Interviewee: Heller, Alfred E.
Interviewer: McHarg, Ian
Producer: Hoyt, Austin
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 0000260129 (WGBH Barcode)
Format: Betacam
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-4 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2049975-4 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
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Citations
Chicago: “Public Broadcast Laboratory; 215; Multiply and Subdue the Earth. Part 2,” 1969-03-09, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 17, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-53jwt6th.
MLA: “Public Broadcast Laboratory; 215; Multiply and Subdue the Earth. Part 2.” 1969-03-09. WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 17, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-53jwt6th>.
APA: Public Broadcast Laboratory; 215; Multiply and Subdue the Earth. Part 2. Boston, MA: WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-53jwt6th