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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

"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...

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction....

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

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...

This haunting, beautifully crafted animation is set in a not-so-distant dystopia where lonely, suspicious pack dogs set the boundaries of their world...

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

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of...

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

A young architect embarks on an ambitious real state development project in Brasília, convinced that he could actually help transform...

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

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...