Urbanism Filmes

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping...

This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After examining cost and available...

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed housing development for lower and...

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse...

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old...

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they...

Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

"Ellas en la ciudad" (Them in the City) focuses on the first settlers of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Seville. Through their stories, we...

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in...

Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have popped up around him.

This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by...

Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more...

Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.

A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?

This short film explores the problems and potentials of small towns in the Drumheller Valley region of Alberta. Citizen participation in the growth...

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.