Urbanism Movies

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

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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 flou...

Exploring the impact of the now defunct Steinberg supermarkets on the urban environment.

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 unexpected...

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

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 p...

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

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old area of Montréal is to be d...

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

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

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

A look at the design of pedestrian oriented city centres.