three days in utopia: part one

What does it mean to have your hometown bought by a corporation? Conversations on community, sprawl, development, and utopia in America. Featuring studies of Columbia, Maryland, and the Denver, Colorado metro area. Part one of four.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Columbia
• Maryland
• Boulder
• Colorado
• Suburban
• Sprawl
• Development
• Utopia
• Communities

[beardrewisalive]

Hey I have a question.......im confused about this video....when you use the words Utopia......are you saying its a utopian community where your filming or was? I am in search of any current Utopian community's that are on google besides the old Byrd Cliff?

Or this video is nothing about what im researching? lol.

[wanderjoy]

I'm saying it was a community with Utopian intentions ... neither Columbia nor Boulder worked out to be a utopia in actuality, but it's worth looking at these communities to see what they did right and where they went wrong. For current utopian communities, try searching for "twin oaks", "auroville", "findhorn", etc.

[readytoliveagain]

Is this your home town?

[Beowulf46]

I think you need to repost a version of the film with the sound sorted out. Potentially, it looks like a really interesting film but I found it too difficult to watch because of the sound levels. Music versus voiceover etc - if I was you I would set the music to about 8 or 9db and the voiceover to about 12db. Also, there was a lot of hiss on the voiceover recording. I only say because it looks like a good film and so people should appreciate it.