Director: Josh ComninellisWriter: Rachel RobinsonStars: Christian TaylorSummary: The first film to expose the impact of urban sprawl on American Agriculture. Farmers and ranchers across the country are dealing with increasing urbanization of rural America. With that urbanization brings challenges and opportunities. Hear from six farm and ranch families, including: Lovin family, Lexington, Georgia; Marsh family, Huntley, Illinois; Stabler family, Brookeville, Maryland; John Dofflemyer, California; Mark Nelson, Wilton, California; and the Cropp family, Damascus, Maryland, about how urban sprawl has impacted them and American Farmland Trust CEO John Piotti about the issue as a whole. Written by Josh Comninellis

Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel GradyStars: Noah Stewart, Rachele Gilmnore, Michael WankoSummary: The woes of Detroit are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base. Is the Midwestern icon actually a canary in the American coal mine? DETROPIA is a cinematic tapestry of a city and its people who refuse to leave the building, even as the flames are rising. Written by Loki Films

Director: Ronit Bezalel, Antonio FerreraSummary:

Director: Ron O'NealWriter: Chuck Colbert, Zuindi ColbertStars: Marla Gibbs, Ron O'Neal, Stoney JacksonSummary: A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.

Director: Andreas DalsgaardWriter: Andreas DalsgaardStars: Jan Gehl, Rob Adams, Robert DoyleSummary: Half of the human population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this will increase to 80%. Life in a megacity is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our way of life. But why? The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through four decades. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. 'The Human Scale' meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the centre of our planning. Written by Final Cut for Real

Director: Gary HustwitStars: Norman Foster, Jan Gehl, Ellen Dunham-JonesSummary: A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

Director: Ryszard HunkaWriter: Ryszard HunkaStars: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Mario Andreani, Michael AnthonySummary: In New York City, where little food is grown or produced, an army of people collectively work 24 hours a day to get the approximately 24 million meals (3 meals a day for 8 million people) to the table. Most people are dependent upon what happens in the middle of the night at among: the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center and the New Fulton Fish Market where decisions about produce, seafood and other perishable food items are made for the upcoming day; Amy's Breads where 500 kilograms of dough are prepared into several kinds of bread products; and Financier Patisserie, where the bread is made into sandwiches and where other pastries are made. Some people are on the road, such as artisan farmers who are bringing their foods to market, or cargo ships bringing in imported foods such as bananas. By daybreak, commuters are either preparing their breakfasts or buying food from retail vendors just opening. Many others, such as restaurateurs, are buying food for the entire days needs. By noon... Written by Huggo

Director: Jim Brown, Gary BurnsWriter: Gary Burns, Jim BrownStars: Daniel Jeffery, Bob Legare, Jane MacFarlaneSummary: Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia, we follow the lives of various inhabitants of this pervasive urban sprawl and hear their thoughts. However at the end, there is a twist that plays on the falseness of the world in they live. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Summary: It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. The film analyzes the impact of the national urban renewal program of the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the process of mass suburbanization, emptying cities of residents, businesses and industries. Those left behind, like the residents of Pruitt-Igoe, faced a destitute, rapidly de-industrializing St. Louis, parceled out to downtown interests and increasingly segregated by class and race. Domestic turmoil was wrought by punitive public welfare policies; the paternalistic Housing Authority was cash-strapped; and the downward spiral of vacancy, vandalism and crime led to resident protest and action during the 1969 Rent Strike. And yet, despite this ...

Director: Matt TyrnauerStars: Thomas Campanella, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mindy FulliloveSummary: Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

Director: Steve GoodmanStars: Jenny Lynn Adame, Raquel HillSummary: A documentary that follows three homeless youth in New York City.