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  1. Life in a Medieval Town

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 16 minutes), £28.00

    We share a young serf’s impressions of a medieval town - the town gate and walls; the tax collector; the town square; the guild workshops - as he finds a new friend, a shoemaker’s apprentice. The film...

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  2. Time Team: The New Town of a Norman Prince (1994 Video)

    aka: New Town of a Norman Prince, The

    Director
    Graham Dixon
    Producer
    Tim Taylor
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    A oak beam and some stone arches link a house in Much Wenlock in Shropshire to the development of the new town 800 years earlier. The discovery of evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall, identification of...

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  3. Experiment in Towns, An (1958 Video)

    aka: British New Towns

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 22 min., 2005 sale: £19.95 (+p&p +VAT)

    Records the experiment in town planning in Britain in the 1950s in which 15 completely self-sufficient and scientifically planned new towns were designed to help draw people and industry from the great...

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  4. New Market Places, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Adam
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Looks at how all over the world, pedestrian precincts, shopping malls and hotel lobbies are replacing traditional town and village squares, but many of these are devoid of any humane qualities. Looks at the...

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  5. Texas: Instant Cities (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Adam
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Available cheap land, no zoning laws, unlimited wealth and an expansionist attitude makes Texas a unique place for architectural experiment. In the ‘pop-up’ cities of Dallas and Houston new concepts and...

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  6. Houses for People (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Adam
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Examines a more humane housing architecture which is beginning to emerge to challenge the monotony of the ‘new town’ ideal. Architects commenting on their work include Norman Foster, Rob Krier and...

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  7. New Town Utopia (2018)

    Director
    Christopher Ian Smith
    Subject
    Architecture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £14.99

    After WW2, new towns were designed as social utopias to create (in the words of the post-war government) "a new type of citizen, a healthy, self-respecting, dignified person with a sense of beauty, culture...

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  8. Towns and Patronage (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In towns today there is a surviving mass of evidence for changes and contrasts in 17th-century society. This programme contrasts Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire with the new 17th-centruy town in...

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  9. Suburbia: The American Dream

    Subject
    Architecture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $14.99

    This collection of industrial films takes a trip back in time to the dawn of the American suburb. They were created to educate the public on the values of moving out of the dirty, grimy city and into newly...

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  10. Scotland in the Enlightenment (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at buildings and paintings of 18th-century Scotland and discusses them in the context of the society, politics and intellectual currents of the time, particularly in relation to the Enlightenment....

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