This film focuses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various examples, it examines the implications and options for a pedestrian-oriented city core. Ninth in Régnier's ten-film Urba 2,000 series.

Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.
Exemplary in its town planning and administration, Bologna has been transformed into a city that is ...

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect s...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 wo...

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project conce...
Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.
This feature documentary zooms in on the city of Sapporo, on the Island of Hokkaïdo in southern Japa...
In the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, an effective government policy of controlling land investmen...

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

Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have poppe...

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitan...
This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing ...
"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change...

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

World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society t...

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentar...

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing proje...