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Showing 1 - 10 of 56 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Urban Sociology
Bomb It 2!
Jon Reiss and his crew travel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and beyond, exploring the local graffiti scenes and artists. Follow-up to the groundbreaking street art documentary Bomb It!.
Collective Eye Films | 2010 | 83 minutes
Bomb It!
Tells the story of contemporary graffiti, tracing its roots in ancient rock paintings through Picasso to its place in hip-hop culture in 1970's New York City.
Collective Eye Films | 2007 | 93 minutes
Building Visions - Rotterdam
The Netherlands is always up to its neck in water. In Rotterdam, urban planners and architects are developing visions for life with water.
Autlook | 2022 | 26 minutes
Building Visions - Vienna Seestadt
Blocks of flats instead of magnificent imperial buildings. A new Vienna is growing around a lake, a megacity with an innovative transport concept and promising ideas.
Autlook | 2022 | 26 minutes
Chinatown
Three senior activists fight for housing rights in DC’s historic Chinatown
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 26 minutes
Clotheslines
The symbolic and artistic role of laundry in womens' lives.
Roberta Cantow | 1981 | 32 minutes
Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code
From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes
Decade of Fire
In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by the city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble.
GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 75 minutes
Far Off Sounds Ep 2 - The Rogue Generator Concerts of Tampa
A group of musicians take their experimental sounds to the street.
Means TV | 2018 | 6 minutes
Farming the Sky
Winters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are long, and the growing season is short. A head of lettuce travels an average 2,000 miles to get there, often arriving shriveled and tasteless. Architect Nona Yehia knew there had to be a better way to get food to eat. Traditional industrial scale agriculture might never be replaced, but she was sure it could be improved. She designed a new kind of greenhouse: a building that would pack a perfectly controlled growing environment into a space built up vertically on a sliver of town land.
Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 8 minutes
