Detropia
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.
This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.
Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, talks about the challenges of regional planning in the United States. As opposed to Europe where spatial planning prevails, the notion of urban planning is more dominant here, and Hoch uses the Chicago region as a case study.
Belinda Yuen, a town planner and expert in mass housing, presents an account of Singapore’s public housing, the evolution of concepts and strategies for high-rise urban planning, and the diverse common spaces that have been designed for a higher quality of life.
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.