The article, by Martina Čermáková, features the depiction of Prague’s Jižní Město neighbourhood in "Out My Window".
The documentary flows from a year-long research on communities living in high-rise developments, drawing heavily from a collaboration with researchers at Toronto's City Institute at York University who have teamed up with colleagues from 12 countries to investigate the challenges suburbanization poses in a globalizing world.
Roger Keil, the director of City Institute, who heads the seven-year research, said that suburbia needs to be studied in a broader, more inclusive, global way than is so far has been, and not only in relation to the city center, noting that there's probably more convergence across the entire spread of the urban region.
"We now find some former suburbs are now denser than the inner city; we often find inner city problems such as poverty concentrated in the suburbs, we experience the suburbanization of downtown as gentrification leads to a cleansing of formerly mixed urban uses and creates urban monocultures for an upwardly mobile middle class while the poor are being pushed into other areas in the urban region," he said.
