The New Metropolis: Building a Sustainable and Healthy Bay Area in the Age of Global Warming

A screening and community dialogue about the film, The New Metropolis, which explores land use policy issues through stories from America's cities and first suburbs will take place at the Rialto Cinemas Cerrito on Saturday, February 4, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (doors open at 9:30 a.m.) A light lunch and community discussion continues from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Nong Thon Vietnamese restaurant in El Cerrito, following the screening. The event is free and open to the public. The forum is being presented by the City of El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee and co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters, and Torrice Productions. Registration is encouraged.

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Reimagining the Region:
Building a New Detroit Metropolis

Approximately 205 citizens and community leaders came from Detroit and surrounding suburbs to the Emagine Royal Oak Theatre to view The New Metropolis and engage public officials in a dialogue.

A range of both suburban and urban civic, church, municipal organizations, legislators, university students, and seniors—black, white, and Hispanic— participated for the first time in a lively conversation about how regional collaboration was key.

Key themes covered were the similar challenges between Detroit and its older suburbs, as well as strategies to collaborate on key issues: overcoming the legacy of segregation, equity, housing, transportation sustainability and economic development.

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