Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia

게리 허스트윗이 오랜 기간 작업해 온 디자인 다큐멘터리 3부작을 완성시키는 어버나이즈드는 제목 그대로 도시화와 도시 디자인에 대한 다큐멘터리이다. 새로운 도전을 하고 있는 세계 곳곳의 혁신 도시들을 방문하여 이 시도에 참여한 아키텍트, 도시 설계자, 행정가, 철학자, 사상가들과의 인터뷰를 담는다. 2050년이 되면 세계 인구의 75%가 도시에서 거주할 것이라는 전망. 하지만 도시들은 현재 성장과 개발, 주택 부족, 교통체증, 환경오염, 시민참여 등 수많은 문제에 직면해 있다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방법은 과연 있는가? 있다면 대안은 무엇인가?

Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits" tells the story of Istanbul and other Mega-Cities on a neo-liberal course to destruction. It follows the story of a migrant family from the demolition of their neighborhood to their on-going struggle for housing rights. The film takes a look at the city on a macro level and through the eyes of experts, going from the tops of mushrooming skyscrapers to the depths of the railway tunnel under the Bosphorous strait; from the historic neighborhoods in the south to the forests in the north; from isolated islands of poverty to the villas of the rich. It's an Istanbul going from 15 million to 30 million. It's an Istanbul going from 2 million cars to 8 million. It's the Istanbul of the future that will soon engulf the entire region. It's an Istanbul nobody has ever seen before.