Urbanism Movies

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...

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

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

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

A silent journey through the mysterious, dark heart of the city center.

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

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...

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

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

The film Together we cycle investigates the critical events that has led to the revival of the Dutch cycling culture. For most people, cycling in the...

This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by...

In the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, an effective government policy of controlling land investment prevents speculation, keeps land prices down,...

“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues...

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed housing development for lower and...

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements...

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

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.