The August issue of Planning Magazine is on the streets, including my latest take on the 1959 science fiction classic, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte.
After being trapped for days in a coal mine, Ralph Burton (Belafonte) emerges to the aftermath of a radioactive attack. Searching for survivors, he makes his way to New York City. Despite similarities with today’s social isolation — and the prescient foreshadowing of the urban abandonment Belafonte’s real-life generation would soon experience — planners will nonetheless marvel at these images. The city has never looked so empty, so beautiful — or so sterile and dead…
For the full review, see Planning Magazine.