World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society that welcomes and encourages new immigrants to flourish

Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.
Archival footage, photos, news clips, and interviews combine to offer a comprehensive overview of th...
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of natu...

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

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...

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

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and w...

Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of sign...
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,...

Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have poppe...

An exploration of immigration in Britain over the half century since Conservative MP Enoch Powell ma...

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

Great Britain was the first country to plan the establishment of 'new towns' to house the overflow f...
This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing ...