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.
A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.
"Ellas en la ciudad" (Them in the City) focuses on the first settlers of the neighborhoods on the ou...
Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.
Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect s...
Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuan...
This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stim...
The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project conce...
This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing ...
The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a wi...
Documentary on the revitalization of a housing complex in a working class neighborhood of Montreal. ...
This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing proje...
This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadia...
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools,...
"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change...
“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global ...
Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless rede...
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,...