Saving the City: Remaking the American Metropolis

Saving the City is a multi-part documentary series with related educational material about how to make our cities better places. Following decades of decline, most urban cores were celebrating almost 20 years of improvement, a transformation now at risk. How did we get here and what comes next?

The series is organized by subject, not city, so we can compare and contrast how different cities approach the same issues. Through insightful storytelling, we learn how to improve the urban experience by seeing what works and what doesn’t in cities across North America.

Presenter

Ron Blatman is Executive Producer/Producer for the Saving the City: Remaking the American Metropolis documentary series about making cities better places now in production — www.savingthecity.org.
He also created and produced the acclaimed Saving the Bay national PBS series narrated by Robert Redford about the history of San Francisco Bay, from its origins to the present and highlighting three pioneering women who saved the Bay from becoming little more than a river in the 1960s — www.savingthebay.org
The series won four regional Emmy awards including Best Documentary. Screenings were held for members of Congress at the US Capitol and the state legislature in Sacramento.
Ron previously worked in real estate development and finance in his native San Francisco and on Wall Street in New York, and served as Director of Business Development in San Francisco mayor's office in the early 1990s. He was the mayor’s point man for keeping the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the city as well as catalyst for a major new Federal office complex.
He earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School and a concurrent Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Center for Architecture + Design, 140 Sutter Street, San Francisco, United States