The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed housing development for lower and upper income levels on a three hundred-acre site adjoining a wildlife sanctuary. The film records the differences aired in meetings of various interest groups that tried to modify the plan according to their views, and the compromise reached, based on plans drawn up by Montréal architect Moshe Safdie.
An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside h...
This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing ...
Exploring the impact of the now defunct Steinberg supermarkets on the urban environment.
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...
Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.
American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, h...
In Barcelona, the Casa Batlló alone sums up the genius of Antoni Gaudí. During the exhibition devote...
This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, a...
The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.
Treats drafting as a means of visual communication and a key to organized training and planning. Dis...
A turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigio...
Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless rede...
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of t...
The film examines Mackintosh's iconic buildings, notably the Glasgow School of Art. Interwoven with ...
A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel ...
This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing proje...
Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV architects, always has 100 projects going at once. Documentary filmma...