Urban Planning Movies

A home video camera observes everyday life from a balcony in Ciutat Vella. Over time, that same point of view reveals the shift from a lived-in...

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...

The heatwave of 2003 remains etched in our memories. We remember an angry emergency doctor, crowded hospital corridors, and a health minister in a...

This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned...

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...

Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive...

Urban architecture as seen through the eyes of four female veterans in the field.

This feature documentary zooms in on the city of Sapporo, on the Island of Hokkaïdo in southern Japan. In contrast to the unplanned sprawl of...

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...

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

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...

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed...

A satirical and surreal mockery of top-down, positivist urban planning exemplified in the character of "Professor C", the film was made by the...

A film about "the father" of Malmö Eric Svenning and how the city has developed during his time.