I wrote a few days ago about the seminar Rethinking urban policy 30 years later and what I am preparing for my presentation. One of these things has to do with the organization of a discussion session using audiovisual materials as an excuse to review the central issues in current urban policies.

We have now completed the selection of videos that will be finally used in the session. It has been necessary to review a large number of very different types of works, choosing the final ones that best fit the structure of the seminar. This settling  process has left a huge list of videos I want to share here because, although we will use in the course around 20 videos, many others are of great interest, too.

They vary in focus and perspective, but together (and disordered) compose a good database of videos that are circulating out there and deal with many of the issues urban policies face nowadays.

Public spaces

• Planning for places
• Inhabitat talks to James Corner about the design of the High Line Urban Park
• San Francisco: Removal of the Embarcadero Freeway
• End of advertising sao paulo 2007 july
• Making Streets Safer for Seniors
• Cities in Focus | New York City
• London's Do-It-Yourself Approach to Safer Streets

Sustainability

• Planning Sustainable Cities
• Urban farms sprout on NYC rooftops
• Jaime Lerner: Sing a song of sustainable cities
• Thomas Ermacora: The metabolic city
• Designing sustainable cities
• Jan Gehl: 3 Qualities of the sustainable city
• Enrique Peñalosa - City of equality
• City Of Dreams - Brazil
• SymbioCity trailer

Colaborative urban narratives

• Recycling the city
• Roquetes, memòries que fan barri
• Documental Puche + acción. Parte 1
• Documental Cámara Urbana en San Martín de Porres
• Lleida, la transformacion de un centro urbano
• Voces móviles
• Aldea DOC en Cámara Abierta
• ARTE Y ACTIVISMO URBANO - OPEN LAB // JET LAG BIO 2010

Digital cities

• The Future of Connected and Sustainable Cities
• The Next 5 in 5
• A Case for Open Data in Transit
• Connected Urban Development
• Invisible Cities
• The Intelligent City
• The Internet of Things
• Dan Hill-Keynote: New Soft City
• Re-Imagining the Future of Cities. SensableCities Lab (MIT)
• Ciudades en Código Abierto
• What if... City scale
• San Francisco Public Transit Data Visualization
• The Copenhagen Wheel - Data Visualization
• Tourist density and flows in Barcelona
• SENSEable City Realtime Rome: An MIT Project
• The City of the Future
• Future cities - Futuris

Urban economy

• Why cities are ideas factories
• Ed Soja - The Postmodern City
• Growth in Kista Science City - northern Europe's leading ICT cluster
• Quality of Life trailer

Urban planning

• Urban Sprawl
• Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
• The End of Suburbia
• Built To Last
• American Makeover Episode 1: SPRAWLANTA
• People, Parklets, and Pavement to Parks
• Líneas discontinuas-Alternativas
• ALL AGE CITY, 10 transformaciones para urbanizar la vejez
• Plantejaments de futur
• Belfast Harbour
• Canary Wharf
• Zorrozaurre: de península portuaria a isla post industrial
• Urbanismo en Málaga

Quality of urban life

• Gentrification animated
• The War on Creativity
• Atopía en el CCCB de Barcelona
• Campaña videovigilancia sevilla
• Videovigilancia Urbana, Negocio e Invasión a la Privacidad
• Cities on speed
• Exposició LOCAL, LOCAL! La ciutat que ve

Urban mobility

• Copenhagen's Car-Free Streets & Slow-Speed Zones
• Portland, a Global Model of Transit-Oriented Development
• Car free inner city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
• Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil
• Inspired Ethonomics: London's Transportation
• Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes
• Via Express en el mundo
• Transit guru: My life in the bus lane
• Transporte urbano (megaciudades)
• Running on Empty

It is just a selection, not the definite list of must-view videos

Image from The Commons en Flickr.