The Downtown Project

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...

“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues...

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...

A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...

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

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

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

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

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...

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

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...