The Age of Uncertainty — Season 1, Episode 11: The Metropolis
Documentary • 54 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
'The city is the focus of the problems of modern society - its uncertainty, crisis, hope, despair.' Prof Galbraith looks at the economic and social forces that turned the magnificent conception of the princely city step by step into the modern metropolis, with all its tensions. He analyses the interaction of these tensions and the ways in which the initial sense of order and pride can be recaptured.
About The Age of Uncertainty
A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
- E2The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
- E3The Dissent of Karl Marx
- E4The Colonial Idea
- E5Lenin and the Great Ungluing
- E6The Rise and Fall of Money
- E7The Mandarin Revolution
- E8The Fatal Competition
- E9The Big Corporation
- E10Land and the People
- E12Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
- E13Weekend in Vermont - Part 1