Cinema and The City

The City in film

 

 

Cinema and the city are historically interrelated. The rise of cinema followed on the heels of urbanization and industrialization, and early cinema production and exhibition was largely urban. Moreover, the city has proved to be a rich and diverse cinematic setting and subject. (Excerpt from the article: The City in Film - Pamela Robertson Wojcik (2014)

 

Work on the city and film must attend to multiple global cities at different historical periods and, furthermore, consider that cinema produces multiple versions of even a single city, as different narratives, genres, studios, directors, and individual films will each produce a different city. 

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Cinema and the City is an initiative to foster a learning atmosphere through related discussion on Urban Planning, Urban Design, and urban issues as housing, economic development, environmental protection, safety and security, transportation, infrastructure, among several other knowledge areas, bringing films as protagonists of urban life, in the past, today and in the future. As part of the "learning-by-doing" method to involve students, faculty and staff in an in-depth planning discussion, this initiative was supported and sponsored by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP- JSUMS).