Gary Hustwit in person! Friday, January 13

"This is the century of city lovers," proclaims the final film in the Design Trilogy, and as half of the world's population today now lives in cities there is a pressing need for massive shifts in the way we think, plan, develop, build and live closely together. Urbanized traverses the globe to examine the best, and worst, practices in urban planning and design in some of the world's major cities, from the vaunting of rapid public transit in Bogota to bicycle culture in Copenhagen, planning fatigue in New Orleans and New York's High Line urban park. Addressing some of the most crucial and urgent issues affecting the world today — poverty, overpopulation, sustainability, environmental survival — while maintaining the ebullience and optimism of its predecessors, Urbanized is a cinematic town hall on progressive urbanism, and an intriguing account of the ways in which people are working from both the top down and bottom up to remake the urban experience.