What Is The City But The People? (1969)
In 1969, The Department of City Planning in New York City developed a new city-wide plan. This documentary, produced and written by John Peer Nugent and narrated by notable urbanist William H. Whyte, was released on public television to provide a behind-the-scenes peek at the planning process. There's a lot that is gone from contemporary New York in this documentary: a gritty Hell's Kitchen, a robust Model Cities program, and acres of slums in Bedford-Stuyvesant. But there's a lot that, for better or worse, is still the same: poverty and prosperity, diversity and wealth, greed and good intentions.
Directors: John Peer Nugent, Gordon Hyatt.
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William H. Whyte as Self |
| Production | Graham Lee Mahin | Production Supervisor |
| Production | John Peer Nugent | Producer |
| Directing | John Peer Nugent | Director |
| Editing | Lee Reichenthal | Editor |
| Production | Stanley Ackerman | Production Manager |
| Writing | John Peer Nugent | Writer |
| Sound | Bernard Green | Music |
| Sound | James Lencina | Sound |
| Production | Nancy Galvin | Associate Producer |
| Directing | Gordon Hyatt | Director |
| Camera | Henry Javorsky | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Arthur J. Ornitz | Director of Photography |
