Is it better to live in the countryside or in a big town?
For most of human history, this was not a question a lot of people asked.
Big cities were simply not a thing.
But during the 19-century, the human world started to shift forcefully towards the urban.
The energy, innovation, and growth that clustering together of various peoples and enterprises brought about were powerful and overwhelming.
New industrial metropolises were growing out of control and as a result, they were full of dirt distress and disorder; no one really knew what to do with them, they were new phenomena in the human world. Are they a good thing, should they be contained, how to guide their growth, could they be less brutal, could they be more beautiful, were people better off in the countryside?

Many prominent thinkers of the time came forth with their diagnosis and solutions to various problems of a rapidly growing metropolis.
One curious gentleman from London by the name of Ebenezer Howard rose above the rest of the new self-appointed urban critics; according to him, the real solution to the countryside/big city question is to look for the third superior kind of settlement a balance between the two combining all of their positive aspects.
Upon this notion was formulated one of the most influential visions for an ideal settlement in urban history - The Garden City.
Everyone even a bit interested in the history of cities has heard of the Garden City.
However, this urban vision has been misunderstood and misinterpreted left, right and center.
Many garden suburbs, garden satellites, garden villages were built under the banner of the garden city movement; but the thing itself, the true garden city, the way Mr. Howard envisioned it is a rare find; the vision was never realized in its entirety.
But the impact of the garden city is immense and therefore In this little film, I set out to understand the Garden City once and for all: beyond the surface of familiar city planing elements towards the deeer insights that it gives us about our never ending quest for an ideal habitat.
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Music from the beginning and the end is "The Best Of Times?" by the band Grden City Movement
Other music used in the film: Cylinder 4 and Cylinder 5 by Chris Zabriskie
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This short film was written, edited, animated and narrated by Miona Petkovic
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