Suburban America

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The documentary named Suburban America: Problems and Promise is an extremely interesting film in my own opinion due to the issue that it brings and discusses with regards to the suburbia. The movie is by APT, which stands for the American Public Television. The documentary highlighted a lot of places in the United States of America such as Long Island, Orange County, and Cleveland that discusses the changes that occurred in the suburban areas in which every area gave its own story in the film. The audience that was focused on during the documentary is the one that lives in the suburbia and the changes of those places socially and politically. All of these places have issues such as an aging infrastructure and with such problems the suburbia is still alive.
The main purpose in this movie in my own standpoint is to highlight the issues and the changes facing the suburb of the Unites States with regards to all the
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I believe that it was the most informative part of the film. The things I have learned for this film are extremely great especially since I got the chance to see how suburbia looks like. I never thought that such places have a lot of issue and challenges. I have never thought that in any way possible politics might be involved in such areas and that was the most surprising part to me. The things I would consider as a drawback to the film are the lack of discussion regarding schools and taxes is the suburbia as well as the growth of population in these places. I truly wish that these topics were explored deeply in the documentary. For the future students taking Sustainable Cities course, I would definitely recommend watching this film as it brought to me personally great benefit and deep understanding of the suburbia and the challenges faced in such

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