What does where we live, and more importantly, how well we live, have to do with how long we live? That is the question at the heart of the film Landscapes of Longevity, an acclaimed documentary film by Asa Eslocker (MLAR ‘14) and Harriett Jameson (MLAR/MUEP ‘14) that premiered last fall at the Virginia Film Festival. The pair, supported by a grant from the U.Va. Arts Council and the Howland Traveling Fellowship for Landscape Architecture investigated three locations characterized by high rates of longevity: Loma Linda, California; Sardinia, Italy; and Okinawa, Japan. Through a series of interviews with healthy seniors, the film opens new windows on the complex relationships between health, place and aging, and examines the positive role planners can play. When one of the researchers loses a parent to heart disease, the number one cause of death in the United States, the project takes on another dimension, looking at the ways in which planners can and must play a proactive role in the communities in which we live and age.