Learn about the wild world of City Planning on PBS tonight at 8pm

Tonight on PBS a new documentary, Blueprint America: Road to the Future, will premiere that explores America’s “aging and changing infrastructure,  examines the choices we can make as the country invests in its infrastructure, and how they can affect the way we live.”  Smart growth in Denver, sustainable development in the Bronx, and cycling in Portland will be discussed.  This will be interesting in light of George Will’s latest Newsweek article where he rails on Obama’s Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, for promoting and planning for transportation choices aside from the automobile.

From the PBS website:

Host and veteran correspondent Miles O’Brien goes to three very different American cities – Denver, New York and Portland, and their surrounding suburbs – to look at each as a microcosm of the challenges and possibilities the country faces…

With roads clogged and congested, gas prices uncertain, smog and pollution creating health problems like asthma, cities that once built infrastructure to serve only automobiles and trucks are now looking to innovative new forms of transportation systems – like trolleys, light rail, pedestrian walkways and bike paths.

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