Urbanism Movies

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

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

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

A young woman wakes up on a train going to an unknown destination. She has no recollection of how she got there or where she is. She finds herself in...

Amina, Sami and Jennyfer are high school students in the Paris suburbs, in 93. At the initiative of 3 of their teachers, they embark on an...

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

Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of...

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

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to...

This short film explores the problems and potentials of small towns in the Drumheller Valley region of Alberta. Citizen participation in the growth...

Focusing on the Matta-Viel complex, the immediate environment, the program, the materiality, the community of neighbors and its architects and what...

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.

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 look at the design of pedestrian oriented city centres.

Valérie Jouve is a weel-known photographer, and Grand Littoral is her first film. Out the outskirts of Marseille, in a landscape criss-crossed...

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

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