The Powers of 10

The Powers of 10, by Charles and Ray Eames for IBM:

https://vimeo.com/6457775

While the linkage to transportation and land use in Minnesota might appear tenuous, it shows what we look like at different scales. The film is “centered” on Chicago, but that’s just part of Greater, Greater Minnesota, an outer suburb of Minneapolis. Anyway, it’s a damn fine film.

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David Levinson

About David Levinson

<a href="https://transportist.org/david-levinson/">David Levinson</a> also blogs at <a href="https://transportist.org">The Transportist</a> and can be found [<a href="https://twitter.com/trnsprtst">@trnsprtst</a>]. Levinson has authored or edited several books, including <a href="https://transportist.org/books/the-end-of-traffic-and-the-future-of-transport/">The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport</a> and <a href="https://transportist.org/books/planning-for-place-and-plexus-metropolitan-land-use-and-transport/">Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport</a> as well as numerous peer reviewed articles. He is the editor of the <a href="https://www.jtlu.org">Journal of Transport and Land Use</a>.