urbanization

This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.

This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.

This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.

This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.

This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.

This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.

In this study the authors offer an analysis of the socio-ecological transformation of Matadepera, a wealthy suburb of metropolitan Barcelona that evolved out of a rural village inhabited by poor peasants who farmed rain-fed cropland and managed the forest.

The aim of this paper is to encourage conservation and prevent further deterioration around the traditional villages of Tlajomulco, Mexico by making more widely known the rich cultural landscape and the know-how of the inhabitants that has contributed to its conservation.

This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.