This feature documentary zooms in on the city of Sapporo, on the Island of Hokkaïdo in southern Japan. In contrast to the unplanned sprawl of neighbouring industrialized cities, Sapporo appears to be one of the best-planned large cities in the world, combining growth and technology with town planning and the preservation of green spaces.

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities ...

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

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic c...

The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It sta...

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stim...
Focusing on the Matta-Viel complex, the immediate environment, the program, the materiality, the com...

A short documentary about urban planning and the harmonisation of old and new building elements in J...

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its jou...

Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and arc...

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City reveals the fascinating life and complex ...

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project conce...

A film about "the father" of Malmö Eric Svenning and how the city has developed during his time.

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

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affectin...
Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.
This film focuses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various e...
In the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, an effective government policy of controlling land investmen...