Duration: 59'00''
Dallas Campbell climbs the world's tallest building and dives beneath Mexico City.
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2: The Way We Move | Supersized Earth
Dallas Campbell explores how we can travel further and faster than ever.
3: Food, Fire and Water | Supersized Earth
Dallas Campbell examines what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water.
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...
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: 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: 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.
Informal settlements | Welcome to Lagos
The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.
Rural to urban migration | Welcome to Lagos
Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.
Transport in London | Top Gear
The presenters compete in an epic race across London to see what is the fastest method to cross a major 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...
6: Urbanisation | World 2000
Can cities sustain the amount of people living in them? How can people improve them?
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...
Free Trade | World's Busiest Cities
The history of HSBC and banking in Hong Kong.
Industrial Work | Welcome to Lagos
Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.
Portland Road | The Secret History of Our Streets
Series on how London has changed since Charles Booth's 1886 survey. Portland Road, Notting Hill, was once London's worst sl...
Slum Clearance | Welcome to Lagos
How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.
2: Revolutionary Paris | Filthy Cities
Dan Snow sniffs out the French revolution to explore how Paris was once buried in an inescapable stench.
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.
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