A 1971 time capsule where bureaucrats actually listened to regular people—shocking, I know.
This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of specialists from different fields who met with members of this urban community to consider the future of the area and the responsibility of the citizens and government in planning the future.
Direction
Patient vérité observation—Hart trusts process over spectacle.
Production
Incredible 1971 Halifax/Dartmouth location footage, now hauntingly nostalgic.
Director
Roger Hart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures a rare moment in Canadian urban planning: the 1970s explosion of citizen engagement before neoliberalism made consultations performative.
Roger Hart was part of the Challenge for Change program, a government-funded initiative that ironically produced radical critiques of government itself.
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