Product Description Kansas Citys most famous land developer, Jesse Clyde Nichols, built a grand local communityand changed America forever. This hour-long documentary chronicles J.C. Nichols life and work, including Kansas Citys own Country Club District, in which Nichols constructed the largest contiguous planned community in the United States. Now more than 100 years old, its crown jewel, the Country Club Plaza, has resisted encroachment by strip malls and fast food chains, and lived up to its founders motto: planning for permanence. The methods and philosophies Nichols championed were largely ignored after his death in 1950, but are now begin revived by architects, planners, and developers looking for ways to combat sprawl and build walkable, sustainable towns. These so-called New Urbanists have found a godfather in J.C. Nichols. The film features interviews with Nichols family members and other prominent Kansas Citians: as well as nationally known figures like art historian Vincent Scully, architecture critic Paul Goldberger, New Urbanist planners, Andres Duany and Peter Calthorpe, and Rick Rosan, president of the Urban Land Institute.