September 20 and 28, 2023
Better Cities Film Festival | Petaluma — Film Selections
From our first festival, 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.
Built to Last: A brief primer on New Urbanism, the movement's vision for building places people love.
The Hangout: An abandoned lot is transformed into a public gathering space.
Zurich Transportation System:
See what happens when a city decides to aggressively pursue a comprehensive public transportation network.
Thoughts on Parking: A look at how parking influences the design and use of our neighborhoods and cities.
Working Cities Wednesday: Pittsfield Massachusetts is a city still in recovery from losing the General Electric plant. Residents are collaborating to empower their community.
Colosal Columbia: A narration of the creation of a 25.000 m2 mural that Colectivo Tomate and Comex´s social impact campaign “Comex, Por un México Bien Hecho.”
Omaha’s Riverfront Revitalization: How do you breath new life into a static downtown? You build a huge park! The city of Omaha is building a 100-acre downtown park to attract people and the businesses that serve them.
LA’s Forbidden City: Follow urban planner Mark Valliantos on a walking tour of missing middle housing. Popular building types in the 1930s - duplexes and triplexes - are now illegal in most of Los Angeles.
Placemaking with Cycle Space: Some of Atlanta's top urbanism and cycling experts discuss the benefits of urban bicycle infrastructure.
Transform Your City With Tactical Urbanism: Groups of people are taking back their streets by implementing low-cost, temporary solutions to what they see as simple ways of making their streets safer or more livable.
The IDEA District: A new 21st century neighborhood is emerging in downtown San Diego founded on the principles of innovation, design, education and the arts.
Tampa - Urban Congo: A group of activist architects builds a pink ping pong table in Tampa's downtown central park.
Urban Planning Lingo: A-Z: Pickled Entropy’s Chris Jones gives a quick and sarcastic primer on urban planning terms.
The Fresno Miracle: The city of Fresno is undergoing a major revision to its general plan. The threat of further sprawl, threatens pollution, loss of farm land, further depression of downtown, and the city coffers. The residents of the city are united with passion like none other, the level of civic engagement was dubbed "The Fresno Miracle" This short film explores how the vibrant mixed use neighborhoods of downtown are rebranding and rebuilding from a grassroots movement.
