Encounter on Urban Environment

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

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...

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and...

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

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

In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing authorities he lived as a hermit deep in the northern...

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still...

The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed housing development for lower and...

The history of Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, and the modern day controversy surrounding his statue.