CITY OF THE FUTURE – FUTURE OF THE CITY
Our global population is in the process of becoming a predominantly urban population. This film examines development issues and politics in three European metropolises: London, Madrid and Hamburg.
This report takes place in three European metropolises: London, Madrid and Hamburg. The film asks who really decides how our cities develop. In London, we discover the concept of the city as a profit-oriented business, which has to assert itself in global competition with other metropolises. In Hamburg, we follow, on the one hand, the redevelopment of a troubled district by the local government. On the other hand, we see how the small artist’s district, the Gängeviertel, is being reshaped by the citizens themselves. In Madrid, the problems of a constantly growing city take on a very concrete form: just 20 km from the centre of the city, Cañada Real, an illegally-constructed autonomously governed district has emerged. This situation was tolerated by the authorities for decades, but in more recent years, the city has been demolishing houses and evicting families because the economic value of the area has increased due to the growth of the city.