“I didn’t know I would be making a film about cities when I made Helvetica but now when I watch it, it’s so obvious,” he says of his interest in urban issues. “Helvetica is about signage in urban ...

You might’ve heard that Gary Hustwit, director of two of our favorite documentaries Helvetica and Objectified, is making a third doc called Urbanized. It’s the third part of his “design trilogy” and ...

Gary Hustwit's design documentary trilogy comes to a close this week with the release of Urbanized, an ambitious look at cities and urban planning practices across the globe. Trekking from Stuttgart ...

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (YBCA) presents a one-week run of Gary Hustwit’s latest documentary, Urbanized, beginning this Friday, November 4th. In the film Hustwit examines how ...

Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning, is featured in Gary Hustwit's new documentary. Bogota, Colombia faced a unique challenge: how to create a 21st century ...

Unless you cycle to work, perhaps your thoughts upon leaving the house each day don’t immediately turn to the design of your urban environment and how it affects your life in the smallest and largest ...

We are a society becoming increasingly urbanized. Fifty percent of us already live in cities, and 75 percent of us will by 2050. Cities face significant challenges: sustainable urban mobility, ...

Here’s a series of statistics that I continue to find staggering no matter how many times I come across them — or cite them myself. In 1900, according to the London School of Economics, 10% of the ...

If we can have site-specific theater (and boy, do we ever), why can’t we have site-specific film screenings? That’s what’s going on August 9, as AIGA Minnesota presents a free screening of the ...

More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, and by 2050, experts say, 75 percent will call a city home. The documentary film "Urbanized," to be shown tonight as part of the Back Row ...