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{{Infobox film
| name           = Urbanized
| image          = Urbanized-film-poster.jpg
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| caption        = 
| director       = [[Gary Hustwit]]
| producer       = Gary Hustwit<br />Lucy Raven
| writer         = 
| screenplay     = 
| story          = 
| starring       = 
| music          = [[El Ten Eleven|Kristian Dunn]]
| cinematography = Luke Geissbühler
| editing        = Shelby Siegel<br />Michael Culyba
| studio         = Swiss Dots
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|2011|10|26|}}
| runtime        = 85 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
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'''''Urbanized''''' is a [[documentary film]] directed by [[Gary Hustwit]] and released on 26 October 2011.<ref name=IMDB>{{cite web|title=Urbanized (2011)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701976/|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref> It is considered the third of a three-part series on design known as the [[Design Trilogy]]; the first being ''[[Helvetica (film)|Helvetica]]'', about the typeface, and the second being ''[[Objectified]]'', about [[industrial design]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Design Trilogy Box Set|url=http://www.hustwit.com/the-design-trilogy-box-set/|website=Hustwit.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143315/http://www.hustwit.com/the-design-trilogy-box-set/|archive-date=20 April 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=NYTreview>{{cite news | last1=Scott|first1=A.O.| date=2011-10-27| work=[[The New York Times]]| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/gary-hustwits-urbanized-review.html | title= The Design of Cities, Intelligent or Otherwise | access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref><ref name=RogerEbert>{{cite web|title=Cities for Human Occupation|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/urbanized-2011|website=RogerEbert.com|date=2011-11-02|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref><ref name=TimeOut>{{cite web|title=Urbanized|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/urbanized|website=[[Time Out (magazine)|TimeOut]]|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref> The documentary discusses how cities are designed, and it features interviews with [[urban design|urban planners]] and architects, such as [[Oscar Niemeyer]] and [[Jan Gehl]].<ref name=IMDB /><ref name=NYTreview /><ref>{{cite news | last1=Mazmanian|first1=Adam| date=2011-10-05| work=[[American Institute of Architects#Magazine|Architect: The Journal of the American Institute of Architects]]| url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/urbanized_o | title= Urbanized | access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref>

==Marketing==
To promote the documentary, Hustwit commissioned a set of four limited edition posters based on four themes related to urban design.<ref>{{cite news | last1=LaBarre|first1=Suzanne| date=2011-02-02| work=[[Fast Company]]| url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1663152/gary-hustwit-prints-posters-to-raise-cash-for-next-film-urbanized | title= Gary Hustwit Prints Posters to Raise Cash for Next Film, "Urbanized" | access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref>

==Reception==
The film was well received by critics.<ref name="rottom">{{cite news|title = Urbanized|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/urbanized_2011|access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref>  [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three out of four stars, calling it "an undertaking on an impressive scale" while suggesting that the documentary could have used more interviews of ordinary people.<ref name=RogerEbert />  Writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[A.O. Scott]] compared the film to "a really good class taught by a team of enthusiastic professors," although he noted "a distinct bias in favor of [Jane Jacobs]-influenced new urbanism and against other approaches to city planning."<ref name=NYTreview /> ''[[Time Out (magazine)|TimeOut]]'', meanwhile, called ''Urbanized'' "gorgeously photographed" while praising the film's interviews and Hustwit's ability "to make even the most banal of cityscapes appear appealingly utopian."<ref name=TimeOut />

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.hustwit.com/urbanized}}
* {{IMDb title|id=1701976}}

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