Snow Fighters

“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues...

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

A look at the design of pedestrian oriented city centres.

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

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

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

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

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...

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

This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all...

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the...

World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society that welcomes and encourages new immigrants to...

In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed vast distances using only the waves, the stars, and...

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the...

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.