Utopia - In Search of the Dream S01E02 Build It And They Will Com...

Utopia - In Search of the Dream S01E02 Build It And They Will Come (720p HD, soft Eng subs) Utopia has been imagined in a thousand different ways. Yet when people try to build utopia, they struggle and very often fail. Art historian professor Richard Clay asks whether utopian visions for living can ever reconcile the tension between the group and the individual, the rules and the desire to break free. Travelling to America, he encounters experimental communities, searching for greater meaning in life. Richard visits a former Shaker village in New Hampshire and immerses himself for a day at the Twin Oaks eco-commune in Virginia, where residents share everything, even clothes. He looks back at the grand urban plans for the masses of the 20th century utopian ideologies, from the New Deal housing projects of downtown Chicago to the concrete sprawl of a Soviet-era housing estate in Vilnius, Lithuania. He also meets utopian architects with a continuing faith that humanity's lot can be improved by better design. Interviewees include architect Norman Foster and designer Shoji Sadao. (with soft subtitles) First broadcast: 15 August 2017 Duration: 1 hour  Media info: General Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41) File size : 1 004 MiB Duration : 59mn 0s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 2 380 Kbps Writing application : Lavf57.25.100 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : [email protected] Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 59mn 0s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 2 281 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 3 500 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 25.000 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.099 Stream size : 963 MiB (96%) Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 58mn 59s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 93.5 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 97.5 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 spf) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 39.4 MiB (4%)