American Makeover Series Starts in Sprawlanta
When filmmakers John Paget and Chris Elisara were looking for a location to shoot the pilot of their new web series on the strategic growth of American cities, they considered Atlanta the natural choice. It is history’s fastest expanding city, which in their series premiere—called Sprawlanta—they say would spread from coast to coast at the rate it has grown since its beginning. But they found that Atlanta was not only the poster child of suburban sprawl but also the site of one of the nation’s models of what is called “new urbanism.” Glenwood Park, a development by Internet entrepreneur Charles Brewer on the Glenwood Avenue connector, provides an example of a in-town location with wonderful places to live, work, shop, eat, and play within walking distance; a model of what these fans of new urbanism say will create safer, more enjoyable, and healthier cities.
The series is called American Makeover and you can view the Sprawlanta series premiere and support this project here.
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