{"id":939,"date":"2010-02-08T22:02:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/?p=939"},"modified":"2012-06-20T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T11:31:15","slug":"the-next-american-system-video-beyond-the-motor-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/featured\/the-next-american-system-video-beyond-the-motor-city\/939\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] Beyond the Motor City"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.video-wrap {position: relative;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin-bottom: 1em;} .video-wrap\tiframe {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden;} .video-wrap.no-topbar {padding-bottom: 56.25%;}<\/style><div class=\"video-wrap no-topbar nocontent no-content cf\"><iframe id=\"partnerPlayer\" name=\"partnerPlayer\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"  src=\"\/\/player.pbs.org\/widget\/partnerplayer\/1409024983\/?chapterbar=false&topbar=false&autoplay=false&endscreen=false\" title=\"Embedded Video Player\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen width=\"512\" height=\"288\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Blueprint America examines how Detroit, a symbol of America\u2019s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. <\/p>\n<p>Detroit is the crucible in which the nation\u2019s ability to move toward a modern 21st century transportation infrastructure is put to the test. The documentary shows how investments in the past &#8212; beginning with the construction of canals in the 18th century &#8212; profoundly shaped Detroit\u2019s physical layout, population growth and economic development. Before being dubbed the Motor City, Detroit was once home to the nation\u2019s most extensive streetcar system. In fact, it was that vast network of streetcars that carried workers to the area\u2019s many car factories. And it was the cars made in those factories that would soon displace the streetcars in Detroit &#8212; and in every major American city.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit\u2019s engineers went on to design the nation\u2019s first urban freeways and inspired much of America\u2019s 20th century transportation infrastructure system &#8212; from traffic signals to gas stations &#8212; that became the envy of the word.<\/p>\n<p>But over the last 30 years, much of the world has moved on, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation and leaving America &#8212; and Detroit &#8212; behind. Viewers are taken on a journey beyond Detroit\u2019s blighted urban landscape to Spain, home to one of the world\u2019s most modern and extensive transit systems; to California, where voters recently said yes to America\u2019s first high speed rail system; and to Washington, where Congress will soon decide whether to finally push America\u2019s transportation into the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blueprint America examines how Detroit, a symbol of America\u2019s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. Detroit is the crucible in which the nation\u2019s ability to move toward a modern 21st century transportation infrastructure is put to the test. 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