The Downtown Project

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban...

Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban...

Great Britain was the first country to plan the establishment of 'new towns' to house the overflow from rapidly expanding industrial centres. Today...

Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get...

Caracas has been changing since the nineteenth century this is a story that tries to explain why the Venezuelan capital is complex, chaotic and...

Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

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,...

Canada is facing a housing crisis, and cooperative housing might be a part of the solution.

Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more...

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

While gun violence was on the decline in most major US cities, why did it continue to increase in Chicago's segregated communities? What is known...