Urbanism Movies

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

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

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...

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 silent journey through the mysterious, dark heart of the city center.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

"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.

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

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...

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 group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?