Urban Studies Filmes

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst...

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about...

Discusses the squatters movement, made up of people who live in abandoned houses through necessity and in order to force change in housing policy....

Jose Rivera is a lifelong resident of Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) but is afraid that gentrification will force him out. James Garcia has just bought...