Urban Planning Movies

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Point, a gritty area in New York City known as the...

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

This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned...

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City reveals the fascinating life and complex legacy of architect and city planner Daniel...

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive...

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...

And urban planner's journey to making the impossible possible.

A documentary essay film about coincidences, shattered lives and posthumous fame. A found footage family film about love and passion, friendship and...

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...

A film about "the father" of Malmö Eric Svenning and how the city has developed during his time.

Urban architecture as seen through the eyes of four female veterans in the field.

Documentary commissioned by the City of Vancouver focusing on areas in Vancouver considered to be an urban blight

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed...

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

Amina, Sami and Jennyfer are high school students in the Paris suburbs, in 93. At the initiative of 3 of their teachers, they embark on an...