Fild Screening: Beyond the Motor City

Title: Fild Screening: Beyond the Motor City
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Auditorium Theater, located on the lower level of the Caroline Wiess Law building at 1001 Bissonnet
Description: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in this country. The film explores how America’s historic decisions to invest in highways and automotive infrastructure has come, in many cities–and particularly in Detroit–at the expense of accessible metro transit systems, sustainable development, historic preservation and urban vitality. While focusing on the hard lessons learned in Detroit, the film also offers the hope that America’s largest cities are now uniquely poised to shine a spotlight on-and to offer sustainable and cutting-edge solutions to-our nation’s transportation obstacles.

A panel discussion will immediately follow the film. Camilo Parra of the AIA Houston Urban Design Committee will moderate. Panelists include Robin Holzer of the Citizens Transportation Coalition, David Robinson of the City of Houston Planning Commission, Jeff Taebel of the Houston-Galveston Area Council, and Christof Spieler, member of the the Houston Metro Board.

FREE ADMISSION
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-06-17