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...

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

Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted,...

After her father's death, Lilo wanders through Zurich's Allmend, a common public space on the edge of the city. It is there that her father spent...

The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It starts by the acquisition of land by the public ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"Ellas en la ciudad" (Them in the City) focuses on the first settlers of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Seville. Through their stories, we...

In Montreal, at a single point, approximately one hundred levels of decision-making were identified. It is difficult to discuss urban planning...

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 documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they...