Urbanism Movies

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of...

Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th century. The square is still at the heart of social...

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...

Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more...

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

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is...

Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have popped up around him.

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

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

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...

Casablanca, vibrant and diverse, always ahead of its time, is the star of this exceptional show bringing together leading speakers and contributors...

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

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

Exemplary in its town planning and administration, Bologna has been transformed into a city that is avant-garde, both socially and culturally, yet...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

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

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

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

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.