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.

While gun violence was on the decline in most major US cities, why did it continue to increase in Ch...

"Ellas en la ciudad" (Them in the City) focuses on the first settlers of the neighborhoods on the ou...

After starting a painting business right before the housing crash, a filmmaker drives over 35,000 mi...

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

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

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

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

A humorous short documentary which features interviews with three zealous New York City roach-haters...

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

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools,...

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

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.

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

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.