Watch it here free online from the NFB website.

A Peabody and Emmy Award-winning interactive documentary covering 2500 years of high-rise living. Released in 2013, directed by Katerina Cizek at the National Film Board of Canada and created with the archives of The New York Times. A little historical context for those of us in Toronto faced with new condo towers at every turn and cranes building more wherever we look.

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