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Urban Renewal: Human Neglect?
 

Higher rent vs. jobs? Displacement vs. neighbourhood prosperity? To some the term 'gentrification' instils the emotion to fight for rights, for others it rings of opportunity well being. Ultimately, urban renewal has been occurring in urban areas for decades. How does this affect the people who are living in these changing environments and what happens to those who are squeezed out of their homes? Are we turning a blind eye to human rights in favour of new businesses, urban 'beautification' and economic growth? Check out this dossier to find out more.

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Little Mountain - Vancouver's Fight for Social Housing
Little Mountain - Vancouver's Fight for Social Housing
 Little Mountain is Vancouver's oldest housing project. Its tenants have been moved out and the city is planning on tea...
Derelict
Reusing abandoned spaces in the inner city....
Stolen From Africville
Short documentary Hosted by members of the Stolen From Africa Movement: Logikal Ethix & Unknown Mizery. Outlining the st...
Farewell to Oak Street
Farewell to Oak Street
People in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto, Ontario, have been forced to live in squalid, dingy flats on ...
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
A documentary looking at the city of Montreal, Quebec, where developers are demolishing citizens' homes to replace with ...
Some People Have to Suffer
Some People Have to Suffer
Councellors want to relocate the citizens of Bridgeview, British Columbia, in order to industrialize the community. Refu...
Radiant City
Radiant City
Radiant City is a documentary examining the metamorphosis of old, small-town suburbia into urban sprawls filled with pow...
Hothouse 3: A Prairie Story
Hothouse 3: A Prairie Story
Set to techno beats, this short animation depicts the transformation of a rural land to an over-developed cityscape....
East Side Showdown
East Side Showdown
East Side Showdown looks at the everyday struggle of residents in the Toronto neighbourhood of Dundas and Sherbourne whe...
City Limits
City Limits
Jane Jacobs offers a critical analysis of North American cities as City Limits follows her throughout her city of Toront...
645 Wellington
645 Wellington
645 Wellington looks at a Montreal, Quebec loft and its residents who are fighting to keep their home against high-tech ...
Cumulus
Have you ever felt like you're walking with a black cloud above your head? This multi-layered film is the story of an ac...
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the 2010 Olympics
Vancouver residents are being forced out of their homes as a result of re-development for the upcoming 2010 Olympics. Wi...
American Hotel Closure
American Hotel Closure looks at the eviction of residents at the American Hotel in Vancouver who are being kicked out in...
Asylum
Asylum
Nurse Norma McMurdo recollects working at Riverview Mental Hospital (Coquitlam British Columbia Canada) from 1949-1951. ...
A City Renewal Project
A large-scale, site-specific collaborative installation by fauxreel and Specter, the project focuses on the state of dec...
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
This movie was chosen as an official selection of the 6th annual Media That Matters film festival. See more great change...
Flowers On A One Way Street
Flowers On A One Way Street
Flowers On A One Way Street chronicle's residents of the York Ville area in the 1960's. The film watches young Toronto...
CUTV News - Gentrification in Montreal
CUTV News - Gentrification in Montreal
Sydney Blackmore reports on Montreal's plans to start the development of Griffintown....
The Buildings They Are A - Changing
The Buildings They Are A - Changing
A look at the work of Active 18, a local neighborhood association in Toronto that has dealt with issues of Condo develop...
Lost Property
Lost Property
Jessica Rose has been living in an artist loft complex in Queen West, Toronto, since she was fourteen. She gives the vi...
Parkdale Barber
Parkdale Barber
A short interview with the owner of a barber shop in Parkdale,Toronto. He talks about his community, his clients and hi...
Farewell to Appliances
Farewell to Appliances
This year Mr. Bell will be closing his store after being in business for twenty years....
Let The Class Wars Begin! The Cabbagetown Restaurant
The Cabbagetown Restaurant on the south-east corner  of Parliament and Spruce St. is facing closure from members of the...
Regent Park Revitalization - Phase 1
Regent Park is undergoing redevelopment. Over the next 10 to 15 years every building in Regent Park will be demolition a...
Count on St. Urbain
Count on St. Urbain
On St. Urbain in Montreal locals count cars and people going by and and they do so with telling results. A little envir...
A Real Mess, Eh Mrs. Campbell?
Condos dwarf the neighbours
Public housing - The next to go?
Palooka's Boxing Club - A positive new development
Mickey MacDonald is fighting for change
Truck Coming Through
Gentrification: Priceless
Competition, Development, Greed
No Luxury Condos
"Die Yuppie Scum!"
Abandoned businesses on Gottingen Street
Development Debris
Halifax Condominiums
Cars Driving Through Us
Future Home of Time & Space
Safeguard Public Storage
Exquisite Condominiums
Community Murual
Homes
Apartment Building
Outreach center
New and Old
New shops
Community Health
Parkdale Legal
Underpass
Th Gladstone Hotel
Construction
West Side Lofts Sales Center
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