Movies and TvShows featuring "urbanisation" theme.

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

This classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Using a collection of still photographs, the film juxtaposes the Dawson City at the height of the gold rush with its bustling taverns and dance halls with the more tranquil Dawson City of the present.

Socio-geographic explorations on the periphery of Addis Ababa, run through by a variety of borders and rifts – between agrarian and urban spatial practices, between economic and linguistic floes, between perspective and dilemma. A polyphonic audiovisual narrative of people who are forced to experience the impetuous urbanisation of African societies the hard way, recorded as a case study that expands into a complex allegory.

Istanbul's street vendors adapt to fast paced urban changes when their neighborhoods are destroyed and residents are evicted over the course of 5 years.

"Under the road, the river!" documentary traces the lost streams of Ankara and sheds light on the struggle to bring these streams back to the daylight.

Best in the World offers a revealing look beyond the photogenic image of Copenhagen.

An oversized courthouse, in the heart of Brussels, would hide an initiatory journey. A secret passage would lead the members of a sect composed of politicians and architects who destroy Brussels to build a utopian city.