Urbanism Movies

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping...

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in...

Exploration of the territory in a delirious time-space journey through the largest Megalopolis in America.

Canada is facing a housing crisis, and cooperative housing might be a part of the solution.

This haunting, beautifully crafted animation is set in a not-so-distant dystopia where lonely, suspicious pack dogs set the boundaries of their world...

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction....

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

Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After examining cost and available...

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the...

A young architect embarks on an ambitious real state development project in Brasília, convinced that he could actually help transform...

Caracas has been changing since the nineteenth century this is a story that tries to explain why the Venezuelan capital is complex, chaotic and...

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of...

The city of Saskatoon makes strategic decisions which prevent speculation and keep land prices down.

Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan’s documentary Everything Will Be captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse...

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...

A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of...