Urbanism Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

"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.

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?

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

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

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

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

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

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...

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