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Is "sustainable cities" an oxymoron or can they be made to work? | |
 | | The City Dark
The definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars. | |
 | | Company Town
A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future. | |
 | | Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA. | |
 | | Detropia
A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system. | |
 | | Edens Lost and Found
4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities. | |
 | | The Human Scale
Influential Danish architect Jan Gehl argues that we can build cities in a way which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. | |
 | | The New Metropolis
Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline. | |
 | | Racing To Zero
Follows San Francisco's innovative efforts towards achieving zero waste, thereby dramatically reducing the city's carbon footprint. | |
 | | A Reckoning in Boston
In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide? | |
 | | A Rising Tide
An in-depth look at the impacts of homelessness on Black children and their families. | |
 | | Stay or Go?
Who will grow China's food as young people leave the countryside for the cities? | |
 | | The Suzuki Diaries: Future City
David and Sarika Suzuki explore urban innovations leading toward sustainability.
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 | | Tokyo Waka
A poem about a city, its people, and 20,000 crows. | |
 | | Truck Farm
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming. | |
 | | The Water Front
In Highland Park, MI an unelected, state-appointed Emergency Financial Manager with quasi dictatorial authority sees water privatization as key to economic recovery. | |
 | | We Are Not Ghosts
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world. | |
 | | Weather Gone Wild
From floating neighborhoods to massive harbor floodgates, cities around the world are engineering ways to cope with extreme weather events. | |
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Aboriginal Architecture
New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
Ageing with Community
The search for community and independence as we grow old.
The Air We Breathe
Connects asthma and other respiratory diseases with air pollution and suburban sprawl.
Argentina: Hope in Hard Times
The Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.
Argentina: Turning Around
An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.
Arid Lands
A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.
Backfired
Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.
The Barcelona Blueprint
Barcelona today is a model of urban planning that may prove sustainable.
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes
Lynden B. Miller explores the life and work of America's first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand.
Beyond Organic
A model of community supported agriculture in the midst of suburban sprawl.
Big or Small?
What's the best method of growing food for a hungry population of 9.5 billion people: Big, or small?
Biker Boys of the Dirt Island
In Nairobi's Korogocho slum, a group of former thieves trying to go straight now provide an informal motorcycle taxi service.
Blue Vinyl
Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
Blue Vinyl (Short Version)
Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
The Boundaries of Change
Cities cope with changing demographics.
Brothers On The Line
The extraordinary story of the Reuther brothers who challenged the automobile industry, and helped build the union movement that remade America.
Build Green
David Suzuki reports on a wide range of green buildings, from large community developments to mini-homes.
Chávez Ravine
Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
Circuit Earth
Shot throughout Philadelphia during the first Earth Week in 1970, the film features community groups, citizens and celebrities reflecting on the crisis facing the planet.
Cities
Is "sustainable cities" an oxymoron or can they be made to work?
The City Dark
The definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars.
City Life
22-part series examining the effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.
City Life
Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.
Collision Course
Reviews the positive steps being taken in India and Brazil to confront the serious public health issue presented by traffic accidents.
Come Hell or High Water
When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled.
Community - Planet Neighborhood
Community regeneration, energy-efficient design, and waste water treatment.
Community by Design
Good design of houses and neighborhoods builds community.
Company Town
A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of "disaster" by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave.
A Crack in the Pavement
2-part series on how greening school grounds improves not only the school, but the surrounding community.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA.
Cultivating Change
Garden tour that proves that growing food can be an avenue to social change.
Designing A Great Neighborhood
A model co-housing project, where future residents participate in the design of their own neighborhood.
Detropia
A vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
Digging In
Jesse Ketchum School greens their schoolyard.
Doing the Right Thing
Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.
Edens Lost and Found
4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities.
Edens Lost and Found - Chicago
City Hall and grass roots groups in Chicago are working on open space, green buildings and an educated citizenry to create a sustainable city.
Edens Lost and Found - Los Angeles
Is it possible that the City of the Angels can be a model for the world of environmental rebirth?
Edens Lost and Found - Philadelphia
Faced with severe budget limitations, Philadelphia's rebirth is being brought about by a network of community-based volunteer organizations.
Edens Lost and Found - Seattle
Recognizing that the human community is growing faster than the aging infrastructure, the city of Seattle created an Office of Sustainability and Environment.
Fat or Skinny?
The people of India are faced with a choice: indulge in a Western-style fast food diet, or embrace healthy and indigenous alternatives.
A Fistful of Rice
Protein deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.
For Richer, For Poorer
In Brazil the gulf between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the world.
From Docklands to Dhaka
English MD travels to Bangladesh to improve community health.
Future Food
With 9 billion people on planet Earth in the year 2050, this 6-part series examines how we will feed ourselves in the 21st century.
Game Over
Explores the changing face of conservation in Kenya.
God Among the Children
Community organization works with at-risk youth in Boston.
The Golf War
Globalization comes to a Philippine seaside community, which has to defend its ancestral lands against golf course development.
Good Food
An intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest.
The Greening of Southie
The story of Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building, and the people who made it possible.
Growing Dreams
An inspirational overview of school ground greening.
Growing Season
Horticulture dramatically improves prisoners' attitudes.
The Hand That Feeds
Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma López unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain.
Helping Ourselves!
In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.
Holy Smoke
Buddhist monks lead anti-tobacco campaign in Cambodia.
How Green Is My Valley?
Documents efforts to revitalize the polluted, impoverished communities in the former coal and steel producing valleys of South Wales.
The Human Scale
Influential Danish architect Jan Gehl argues that we can build cities in a way which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account.
I.M. PEI
Architect I.M. Pei returns to his home city of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum that complements the architecture of the 2,500 year-old city and sets a course for modern Chinese architecture.
In The Wake of War
A burgeoning grassroots peace movement in Burundi is aimed at ending civil war between Tutsis and Hutus.
Islas Hermanas
Ometepe, Nicaragua, and Bainbridge Island near Seattle work together for a better life for both communities.
It Takes a Village
A cyclone in Bangladesh results in the construction of an experimental community health center.
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Kabul Transit
A street-level documentary that explores the soul of a city devastated by nearly three decades of war.
Kosovo: Rebuilding the Dream
Assesses the success of UN efforts in rebuilding Kosovo.
Life 8
A new 16-part series about the effects of globalization on people around the world, and the difficult choices they face.
Lines in the Dust
In revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.
Livable Landscapes
How growth and sprawl affect the quality of life in New England, and some possible solutions.
The Long March
Community in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.
A Lot in Common (Short Version)
A community garden grows community as well as food, flowers and consciousness.
A Lot in Common
A community garden grows community as well as food, flowers and consciousness.
Making Shelter
Co-ops and co-housing provide new models for building community.
Maps with Teeth
Bioregional mapping by locals communicates a sense of place and regional identity.
Milking the Rhino
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.
My Hanoi
Tour of rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and culture.
My Mother Built This House
Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.
Nature's Cleanup Crew
Examines the lives of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind.
Near or Far?
The Nigerian Minister for Agriculture wants to ensure Nigerians eat food grown in Nigeria.
The New Metropolis
Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline.
The Next Industrial Revolution
Architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
No Umbrella
An unblinking look at the 2004 US Election Day failures in one of Ohio's poorest neighborhoods.
Nottingham Lace
With unemployment figures rising across Europe, is there still a place for the niche craft skills of Cluny Lace in the U.K.'s East Midlands?
Old or New?
In Lima, Peru, a new generation of top chefs are cooking with traditional ingredients and supporting traditional livelihoods.
On the Road
RV owners leave their home towns and build their own communities.
Once Was Water
Las Vegas provides an example to the world of how any city can and must create its own sustainable water solutions.
The Other Side
Poor Mexicans attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family, traditional culture, and their lives.
Pavements of Gold
Increase in urban poverty and population, caused by globalization, threatens Peruvians.
Poison in the Rockies
Threats to water quality in the Colorado Rockies.
Racing To Zero
Follows San Francisco's innovative efforts towards achieving zero waste, thereby dramatically reducing the city's carbon footprint.
Reaching Out to the Grassroots
Education and community-driven development combat poverty in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
The Real Leap Forward
Reports on China's successful efforts to reduce poverty through sustainable development and targeted programs.
A Reckoning in Boston
In prosperous and progressive Boston, what keeps the gap between rich and poor, white and Black, so glaringly wide?
Reclaiming Community
Communities in Toronto and Oakland take back and revitalize public spaces.
Reel to Real: Holding Our Ground
International efforts to assure reproductive health and rights conflict with cultural realities in the Philippines, Latvia, Japan, and India.
ReInventing The World
Three 50-minute programs on creating sustainable cities, food systems, and lifestyles.
The Return of the Cuyahoga
The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.
Return to Srebrenica
Survivors of the massacre in Srebrenica struggle to heal their community and build a new future.
A Rising Tide
An in-depth look at the impacts of homelessness on Black children and their families.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns (Classroom Version)
Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Scent of the Streets
Nigeria has had some success in getting more women into government and business. But what about in the crowded and often violent slums of Lagos?
School's Out!
The private school option in a Lagos shantytown.
The Search for General Tso
A quest to understand the origins of this ubiquitous, spicy red chicken dish and to explore the history of Chinese-American food.
Seeing is Believing
Zambia begins a nationwide program to deliver Vitamin A to its population.
Slum Futures
The slums of Mumbai are an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world.
Stay or Go?
Who will grow China's food as young people leave the countryside for the cities?
Store Wars
Looks at the impact on a small town when Wal-Mart plans to build a mega-store there.
Street Fight
Tells the gripping story of the race for mayor of Newark, N.J., where elections are won and lost in the streets.
Subdivide and Conquer
Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies.
Subdivide and Conquer (Short Version)
Suburban sprawl -- causes and remedies.
The Suzuki Diaries: Future City
David and Sarika Suzuki explore urban innovations leading toward sustainability.
this black soil
Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, VA, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
Together Against Violence
Poor Jamaican community overcomes violence.
Tokyo Waka
A poem about a city, its people, and 20,000 crows.
Trees in Trouble
The first film to document how a city responds to the imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects such as the emerald ash borer.
Truck Farm
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Truck Farm - Short Version
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Valley at the Crossroads
The battle over sprawl in California's Central Valley, where 50% of America's fruits, nuts, and vegetables are grown.
Virtually Intentional
Finding community in the cloister, a commune, and in cyberspace.
The Wasting of a Wetland
The destruction of the Florida Everglades.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program One
Communities solving their own water problems.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program Two
Farmers and communities solving their own water problems.
The Water Front
In Highland Park, MI an unelected, state-appointed Emergency Financial Manager with quasi dictatorial authority sees water privatization as key to economic recovery.
We Are Not Ghosts
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.
Weather Gone Wild
From floating neighborhoods to massive harbor floodgates, cities around the world are engineering ways to cope with extreme weather events.
Weather Report
A report from the front lines of climate change in Kenya, India, Canada, the Arctic, China, and Montana where people's lives have already been dramatically altered.
Where Am I?
Why are some of us good at finding our way, while others are not? The latest findings in spatial cognition research have multiple implications including for urban planning and design.
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