Exemplary in its town planning and administration, Bologna has been transformed into a city that is avant-garde, both socially and culturally, yet still preserves its historical roots.

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 wo...

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

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...

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

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stim...

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitan...

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affectin...
Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built i...
Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were ...
Canada is facing a housing crisis, and cooperative housing might be a part of the solution.

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...

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...

The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a wi...