This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is restoring older apartments through direct action and government subsidies, new, low-rent housing is being integrated into old neighborhoods.

Diving deep into the true causes of the Great Recession, the financial crisis of the 2010s, renowned...

In central Oslo, Egil (78) and his neighbors in an apartment block are threatened with losing their ...

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuan...

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

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

The availability of housing is a big topic today. It has the strongest impact on those who participa...

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

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its jou...
Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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