Birth of a City

★★★★★ · Product of a Planned Community · MCVlog · 2010-04-08

This was amazing to see and to find. I was raised in Broomfield. I was 5 years old when my family moved there, and started attending Kohl Elementary School, and later attended Nativity School. Now looking back I see that I am a product of a planned community. The documentary brought back early memories, and I must say that growing up in Broomfield at that time was a special experience. Front doors unlocked, parks to play in, the city within the highways was open and safe. The ideals that were expressed in the documentary are some of the best things that I carry with me now. I have now moved…

★★★★★ · old time Broomfield · Mark Stout · 2010-09-01

Absolutely loved this video of Broomfield Heights and planning. My dad's house was building permit #49 in the first filing.I was born a year after they moved in July of 58. Some of the pictures of digging foundations were a few hundred yards from the grain elevators off 120th near Old Wadsworth. The Emerald elementary school still has the same playground equipment that we played on 47 years ago. Amazing footage, with homes you could still recognize today. Lots of stories about growing up in Broomfield and the vision that the city planners had was right on with this video. I'll look for more…

★★★★ · Where they are Now · ColoradoRuss · 2003-09-09

Oddly enough, Broomfield Heights has finally realized the dream of the bombastic narrative and has gone beyond a city and is now City and County of Broomfield. The population is currently between 30 and 35 thousand as predicted by the Turnpike Land Company. While it may be a bit of a bedroom community for Denver and Boulder it is not the sort of suburb assumed by the two previous, rather cynical reviews of the film. It has a thriving technical park and other industry. The site of the original "giant shopping mall" is home to a Target and a couple of serviving restaurants and professional…

★★★★ · Birth Of A City interesting · ERD. · 2010-04-10

This film about the planning and building of Broomfield Heights was interesting. It was probably made around 1956. For many families Broomfiewld Heights was,and still is,the perfect place to live. I am happy for them.

★★★ · Birth of a City · Christine Hennig · 2003-08-23

This really should be called Birth of a Suburb. The planning and building of Broomfield Heights, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, is shown. You know what you're in for when you find out that the "city" is planned around a giant shopping mall. Now I don't live anywhere near Denver, but I just bet Broomfield Heights is just another neighborhood in its urban sprawl by now. After all, it is a "suburban dream of yesterday." Still, this movie is fun to mst, as it has bombastic, newsreel-style narration. Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: **. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***.

★★ · There's a difference between a 'city' and a 'subdivision' · Spuzz · 2003-07-22

In this film, the building of the 'city' of Broomfield Heights, Colorado is documented. Men meet, plans are drawn up, contractors come in, houses are built and people come. One wonders if this is not one big commercial for living in this "city" or "town" or whatever they seem to call it from one instance to the next. The film didn't really capture my attention. A better film on this site with a similar topic is the 1965 Parade Of Homes.