Caracas has been changing since the nineteenth century this is a story that tries to explain why the Venezuelan capital is complex, chaotic and fertile. In light of these new evidences, community experiments, social awareness and organization of people, seem to be the necessary ingredients to rescue a metropolis that is not yet completely lost.

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

Valuable testimonies, unedited images and Billo's iconic music depict his life from 1937 and through...

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...

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

Hugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. ...

Great Britain was the first country to plan the establishment of 'new towns' to house the overflow f...

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

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.
This film focuses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various e...
This feature documentary zooms in on the city of Sapporo, on the Island of Hokkaïdo in southern Japa...
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,...

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing proje...
This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing ...

"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...
"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change...

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless rede...