Urban Planning Movies

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

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

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

The city of Edmonton is under pressure to deal with the problems related to housing, development, and traffic.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

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...

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

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

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

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