Urbanism Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive...

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...

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...

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...

Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This film focusses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various examples, it examines the implications and...

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