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Film Screening: Beyond the Motor City

June 23, 2010, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

This is a past event

Lecture Hall Gallery Chicago Architecture Foundation 224 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

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In partnership with Chicago Architecture Foundation and CEOs for Cities, MPC is hosting a community screening of the Beyond the Motor City documentray.

Opening remarks by Carol Coletta, President and CEO, CEOs for Cities

Beyond the Motor City, a new documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf (King Corn), takes a broad look at our country’s transportation history through the lens of the experience of Detroit, a city once renowned for its auto manufacturing and now notorious for its extreme deterioration.  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.

Beyond the Motor City is part of Blueprint America, a national, multi-platform initiative examining the state of America's transportation infrastructure. Blueprint America was created and produced by Thirteen for WNET.ORG and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation.

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This page can be found online at http://archive.metroplanning.org/events/event/67

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