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 site...

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

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 wer...

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

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

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 s...

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

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

A look at the design of pedestrian oriented city centres.

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

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

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...

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

This haunting, beautifully crafted animation is set in a not-so-distant dystopia where lonely, suspicious pack dogs set the boundaries of their world...

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

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