Basingstoke - Runcorn - British New Towns at Fmovies. Great Britain was the first country to plan the establishment of 'new towns' to house the overflow from rapidly expanding industrial centres. Today these towns number over one hundred. This film examines the operation of two of them.
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Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.
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The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It starts by the acquisition of land by the public ...
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A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.
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The human side of town planning, as exemplified in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coldspring Project concerned a proposed housing development for lower and...
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In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements...
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This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they...
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Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.
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This film focuses on the approaches that several cities have taken to one problem. Through various examples, it examines the implications and options...
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This feature documentary zooms in on the city of Sapporo, on the Island of Hokkaïdo in southern Japan. In contrast to the unplanned sprawl of...
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Canada is facing a housing crisis, and cooperative housing might be a part of the solution.
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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...
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Legault is an aging man who lived in a rural cabin, now a suburban cabin, as developments have popped up around him.