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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the...

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

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 biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

Through interviews with historians, architects, archaeologists and local organizations, this documentary series describes the history of Casablanca,...

People live in a world of cities; reflecting on ancient models of the city as a human phenomenon offers important lessons about today's culture; an...

Six-part series tracing the origins of the city, its transformations and prospects, based on Lewis Mumford's book The City in History. Aired by CBC...