Duration: 29'00''
Can cities sustain the amount of people living in them? How can people improve them?
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1: Population | World 2000
Examines tensions between population & resources. Are there too many people on the planet?
2: Climate Change | World 2000
How will climate change affect us?
3: Globalisation | World 2000
What is globalisation and how does it affect us?
4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000
Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.
5: Work and Technology | World 2000
Explores job creation, road congestion and housing in Cambridge.
7: Water: Global Differences | World 2000
Challenges the myth that we are running out of water and looks at water resource management.
8: Energy | World 2000
Are we running out of energy resources?
1: A Place to Live | Supersized Earth
Dallas Campbell climbs the world's tallest building and dives beneath Mexico City.
1: New York | The Greatest Cities In The World
Griff starts his search for the greatest cities in the Big Apple. Some grand public - and private initiative buildings illustr...
2: Revolutionary Paris | Filthy Cities
Dan Snow sniffs out the French revolution to explore how Paris was once buried in an inescapable stench.
2: The Way We Move | Supersized Earth
Dallas Campbell explores how we can travel further and faster than ever.
2: War | Welcome to Rio
A look at Rio's drug-trafficking favelas, being 'pacified' by the government's special forces ahead of the World Cup in increasingly violent incursions.
3: Industrial New York | Filthy Cities
Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.
3: Ingenuity | Welcome to Rio
This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.
3: Paris | The Greatest Cities In The World
Griff is in the French capital, object of great chauvinistic pride and vanity. Although resulting in a mind-boggling traffic mayh...
Accommodation in the City | World's Busiest Cities
Ade Adepitan visits a type of shared accommodation in Hong Kong that many are forced to live in due to extortionate housin...
Agriculture in the City | World's Busiest Cities
Dan Snow investigates the history of residents of Mexico City since the Aztecs.
Crime | World's Busiest Cities
Dan Snow investigates how Mexico City's police work from the sky.
Episode 2 | Mind the Gap: London v the Rest
Britain is becoming one country with two economies - London and the rest. In the second of two programmes, Evan Davis asks what t...
Episode 2 | Return to Forgotten Britain
Twelve years after the series looking at some of Britain's hard pressed communities, Fergal Keane returns to Glasgow and Leeds to fin...
Episode 2 | Welcome to India
This episode follows three people as they attempt to make a living from turning the stuff others would call waste into an opportunity.
Episode 2 | Welcome to Lagos
This episode follows those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon, including a father of 18 who lives in a house built on sti...
Episode 3 | Welcome to India
This follows three families as they search for a better life today and for generations to come.
Episode 3 | Welcome to Lagos
This last episode follows Esther, who lives in a scrap house on the beach in central Lagos. Her village has repeatedly been bulldozed by governm...
Forgotten Britain | Our World
Michael Buchanan meets people in Hartlepool in the North East of England to find out how government cuts have affected their lives.
Free Trade | World's Busiest Cities
The history of HSBC and banking in Hong Kong.
Globalisation and Immigration | World's Busiest Cities
Anita Rani visits Chungking Mansions, a culturally diverse location in Hong Kong, where people from over hundred count...
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