Encounter on Urban Environment

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction....

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...

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

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

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

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

Exploring the impact of the now defunct Steinberg supermarkets on the urban environment.

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20...

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

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 biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.