Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell

Chairs for Lovers

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

Halifax Neighbourhood Center Project

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

Legault's Place

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

Mobility

This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After exa...

Little Burgundy

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

The Coldspring Project

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed hous...

The Noise of Time

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost disc...

Farewell Oak Street

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

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

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

A Capital Plan

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with...

Operation: Jane Walk

The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a winter walk, avoiding...

Everything Will Be

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

Uma Cidade Chamada Tiradentes

The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It starts by the acquisiti...

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

Ellas en la ciudad

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

Encounter on Urban Environment

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-lon...

Amora

City Limits

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

Together We Cycle

The film Together we cycle investigates the critical events that has led to the revival of the Dutch cycling culture. Fo...

Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, t...