Movies: Urbanism

  • 1949
    A Capital Plan

    A Capital Plan (1949)

    A Capital Plan

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    This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction. Street congestion, air pollution, and rail traffic were all the negative results of a city that had g...

    A Capital Plan
  • 1973
    Promises, Promises ...

    Promises, Promises ... (1973)

    Promises, Promises ...

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    This short film explores the problems and potentials of small towns in the Drumheller Valley region of Alberta. Citizen participation in the growth and improvement of the region is encouraged through the Task Force on Urbanization and the Future. How...

    Promises, Promises ...
  • 2025
    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée

    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée (2025)

    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée

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    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 conflicts in Quebec, 150 years later....

    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée
  • 2022
    Alternate Spaces

    Alternate Spaces (2022)

    Alternate Spaces

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

    Alternate Spaces
  • 2020
    Metropolitan Casablanca

    Metropolitan Casablanca (2020)

    Metropolitan Casablanca

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    Casablanca, vibrant and diverse, always ahead of its time, is the star of this exceptional show bringing together leading speakers and contributors to tell the story, experience the present, and build the future of Metropolitan Casablanca....

    Metropolitan Casablanca
  • 1971
    City Limits

    City Limits (1971)

    City Limits

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

    City Limits
  • 2013
    Picture Perfect Pyramid

    Picture Perfect Pyramid (2013)

    Picture Perfect Pyramid

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    Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of Vienna in 1983. Using twenty-four positions the film was shot over the course of an entire day, with one s...

    Picture Perfect Pyramid
  • 2024
    Alliances Terrestres

    Alliances Terrestres (2024)

    Alliances Terrestres

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    Alliances Terrestres
  • 2023
    Entre 10 et 100 Hertz

    Entre 10 et 100 Hertz (2023)

    Entre 10 et 100 Hertz

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    Entre 10 et 100 Hertz
  • 1974
    Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society

    Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society (1974)

    Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society

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

    Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society
  • 2024
    Forest

    Forest (2024)

    Forest

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    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 a vast city; a forest of steel and iron and concrete, wandering the dark streets....

    Forest
  • 2021
    Du béton sur nos courgettes

    Du béton sur nos courgettes (2021)

    Du béton sur nos courgettes

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    Du béton sur nos courgettes
  • 1957
    Snow Fighters

    Snow Fighters (1957)

    Snow Fighters

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

    Snow Fighters
  • 1972
    Griffintown

    Griffintown (1972)

    Griffintown

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    Griffintown
  • 2022
    Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

    Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square (2022)

    Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

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    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 businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that...

    Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
  • 1974
    Montréal: The Neighborhood Revived

    Montréal: The Neighborhood Revived (1974)

    Montréal: The Neighborhood Revived

    01974HD

    This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is restoring older apartments through direct action and government subsidies, new, low-rent housing is being ...

    Montréal: The Neighborhood Revived
  • 1968
    Little Burgundy

    Little Burgundy (1968)

    Little Burgundy

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    "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 demolished to make way for a new low-income housing development, is there anything the residents can ...

    Little Burgundy
  • 1978
    La Alameda

    La Alameda (1978)

    La Alameda

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    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 Sevillian capital in a debate about its possible destiny and urban planning challenges, the filmmaker J...

    La Alameda
  • 1964
    Legault's Place

    Legault's Place (1964)

    Legault's Place

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

    Legault's Place
  • 1974
    Sapporo - Planned Growth

    Sapporo - Planned Growth (1974)

    Sapporo - Planned Growth

    01974HD

    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 neighbouring industrialized cities, Sapporo appears to be one of the best-planned large cities in the world,...

    Sapporo - Planned Growth