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Showing 1 - 10 of 19 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Housing and Construction Sector
The Absent House
Sustainable design in the tropics. The story of a Puerto Rican architect pioneering locally-suited green buildings for over thirty years.
Icarus Films | 2013 | 55 minutes
The Best of Both Worlds
Cohousing offers both privacy and community—the best of both worlds!
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 27 minutes
Building Visions - India
In southern India, the architect Anupama Kundoo deals with the question of how to save resources with traditional and modern building materials.
Autlook | 2022 | 26 minutes
Elena
Follows several residents in the 'Elena' building, located in Central Havana, over a three-year period.
Icarus Films | 2012 | 43 minutes
Hedgehogs Home
Hedgehog's unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts.
National Film Board of Canada | 2017 | 10 minutes
Jaffa: A Guide to Gentrification
Tel Aviv-Jaffa is the most expensive city in the world. Is it the free market, or gentrification?
First Hand Films | 2022 | 68 minutes
Once Was Water
Las Vegas provides an example to the world of how any city can and must create its own sustainable water solutions.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 55 minutes
One Big Home
Trophy homes threaten Martha's Vineyard. When he feels he is complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, one carpenter takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 88 minutes
A Short History of the Highrise, Pt. 1: Mud
In the first episode of a four-part series, "Mud" traces the roots of the residential highrise, from the biblical Tower of Babel to New York's tenement buildings.
National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 5 minutes
A Short History of the Highrise, Pt. 2: Concrete
In the second installment, Concrete explores how, in New York City and globally, residential high-rises and public housing attempted to foster social equality in the 20th century. The film is narrated and directed by Katerina Cizek in collaboration with the New York Times.
National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 7 minutes
