Better Cities Film Festival Petaluma 2025 Film Selections

Explore a curated showcase of innovative urban design, community-driven solutions, and captivating narratives that reimagine how we live, work, and connect in cities around the world.

The Edible Bus Stop (Parts 1 and 2): The Edible Bus Stop® in South London transformed neglected urban public sites into design-led, community growing spaces.

The Edible Bus Stop (Parts 1 and 2): The Edible Bus Stop® in South London transformed neglected urban public sites into design-led, community growing spaces.

RitaHouse: Originally a 1926 Hollywood prop design studio, RitaHouse is now a supportive shared workspace for creative entrepreneurs.

RitaHouse: Originally a 1926 Hollywood prop design studio, RitaHouse is now a supportive shared workspace for creative entrepreneurs.

Precollinear Park - A Placemaking Experience: A Turin, Italy community transforms a dismissed tramway terminus and abandoned track into a low-budget public park.

Precollinear Park - A Placemaking Experience: A Turin, Italy community transforms a dismissed tramway terminus and abandoned track into a low-budget public park.

Jack's Solar Garden: Combining solar and agriculture, Jack's Solar Garden offers land developers and farmers a win-win scenario.

Jack's Solar Garden: Combining solar and agriculture, Jack's Solar Garden offers land developers and farmers a win-win scenario.

Ballyfermot Play Park: The Irish Architecture Foundation and Dublin City Council collaborated on a BMX park fulfilling the vision of young bikers.

Ballyfermot Play Park: The Irish Architecture Foundation and Dublin City Council collaborated on a BMX park fulfilling the vision of young bikers.

Spirit of Detroit: The residents of Detroit are rising to the challenge to make a new city and a new future for themselves.

Spirit of Detroit: The residents of Detroit are rising to the challenge to make a new city and a new future for themselves.

Urbanizing the Suburbs, Ohio: City leaders, developers, and architects work to together to make suburbs relevant again with walkable places.

Urbanizing the Suburbs, Ohio: City leaders, developers, and architects work to together to make suburbs relevant again with walkable places.

Thoughts on Reimagining Urban Sites: A pioneering designer of iconic public spaces discusses the principles that have guided his work.

Thoughts on Reimagining Urban Sites: A pioneering designer of iconic public spaces discusses the principles that have guided his work.

Bicycle Friendly Streets: A neighborhood council designates bicycle friendly streets and devises mitigations to reduce high car travel and cut-thru traffic.

Bicycle Friendly Streets: A neighborhood council designates bicycle friendly streets and devises mitigations to reduce high car travel and cut-thru traffic.

Bikes vs. Cars - The False Dichotomy: Bike infrastructure is often described as hostile towards cars, but good bike policies are also good for cars and walkers.

Bikes vs. Cars - The False Dichotomy: Bike infrastructure is often described as hostile towards cars, but good bike policies are also good for cars and walkers.

DTLA Street Futures: An exploration into the future of streets and cycling in Los Angeles.

DTLA Street Futures: An exploration into the future of streets and cycling in Los Angeles.

River City Rising: Facing a severe housing crisis, Spokane developed a Housing for All initiative inspired by and rooted in its own history.

River City Rising: Facing a severe housing crisis, Spokane developed a Housing for All initiative inspired by and rooted in its own history.

The Northparker: A new mixed-use building brings together craft beer, street tacos, and modern design in a trendy San Diego neighborhood.

The Northparker: A new mixed-use building brings together craft beer, street tacos, and modern design in a trendy San Diego neighborhood.

The Square Deal Towns: Binghamton, Endicott, and Johnson City, New York, once home to major companies, revitalize after decades of disinvestment.

The Square Deal Towns: Binghamton, Endicott, and Johnson City, New York, once home to major companies, revitalize after decades of disinvestment.

Tactical Urbanism Workshop - Cataguases: With an architect and 25 students, Urb-i transforms a small city space in Brazil within hours.

Tactical Urbanism Workshop - Cataguases: With an architect and 25 students, Urb-i transforms a small city space in Brazil within hours.

Seaside - American Makeover Series: Andrés Duany, who helped design it, interprets Seaside, showing groundbreaking ideas as byproducts of building without debt.

Seaside - American Makeover Series: Andrés Duany, who helped design it, interprets Seaside, showing groundbreaking ideas as byproducts of building without debt.