Urbanism Movies

A young woman wakes up on a train going to an unknown destination. She has no recollection of how she got there or where she is. She finds herself in...

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

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of...

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20...

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

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of...

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.

Caracas has been changing since the nineteenth century this is a story that tries to explain why the Venezuelan capital is complex, chaotic and...

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive...

Exploring the impact of the now defunct Steinberg supermarkets on the urban environment.

Exploration of the territory in a delirious time-space journey through the largest Megalopolis in America.

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

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...

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

Documentary on the revitalization of a housing complex in a working class neighborhood of Montreal. Modern housing has now replaced the old, sagging...

This film focusses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various examples, it examines the implications and...

Great Britain was the first country to plan the establishment of 'new towns' to house the overflow from rapidly expanding industrial centres. Today...

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is...