On: Raising of Chicago

[an_aparallel]

Ah man - this is one of the cooler things i've ever heard of. I first heard of it in PBS doco "Chicago: City of the Century". That documentary - is one of the finest chronicles of modern society i've ever seen. The insights into psychology, civil engineering, and history are second to none. Most profound to me were the "design" of suburbs with the trappings we dont think very much of these days - libraries, pools, shopping centres and so on - were created to push "ideal lives" which were basically the dangled carrots of real estate empires. Brilliant stuff.

[ashryan → an_aparallel]

I just came across American Experience for the first time over the last week. What I've seen so far is incredible.

This is their YouTube profile: https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS/featured

Unfortunately, the doc you mention isn't on there. They do have the transcript on their site tho: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chicago/

[NaOH → ashryan]

Those three American Experience episodes on Chicago can be found here (#s 157–159): https://archive.org/details/american-experience_20220511

[an_aparallel → NaOH]

Thanks so much for linking this - wouldnt have thought to look for them at IA! Silly of me tbh :)

[an_aparallel → ashryan]

Indeed, Ken Burns docos are brilliant!