The presenters compete in an epic race across London to see what is the fastest method to cross a major city.
Can cities sustain the amount of people living in them? How can people improve them?
Twelve years after the series looking at some of Britain's hard pressed communities, Fergal Keane returns to Glasgow and Leeds to fin...
In 2000 the BBC's foreign correspondent Fergal Keane visited some of Britain's hard pressed communities. In this follow up series, he...
Michael Buchanan meets people in Hartlepool in the North East of England to find out how government cuts have affected their lives.
Griff is in the French capital, object of great chauvinistic pride and vanity. Although resulting in a mind-boggling traffic mayh...
Griff starts his search for the greatest cities in the Big Apple. Some grand public - and private initiative buildings illustr...
Programme looks at growth of Paris since the war and compares quality of life for people living in city centre, suburbs and in a purpose buil...
This follows three families as they search for a better life today and for generations to come.
This episode follows three people as they attempt to make a living from turning the stuff others would call waste into an opportunity.
Hugh Doherty has spent a lifetime building tunnels. But now he is facing his biggest challenge yet - building London Underground's new Jubilee L...
Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.
Dan Snow sniffs out the French revolution to explore how Paris was once buried in an inescapable stench.
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...
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...
Series on how London has changed since Charles Booth's 1886 survey. Portland Road, Notting Hill, was once London's worst sl...
Richard Bilton visits Stockton, the town with the country's worst health inequality, to investigate variances in life expectancy between it ...
Britain is becoming one country with two economies - London and the rest. In the second of two programmes, Evan Davis asks what t...
This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.
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.
A look at the astonishing daily systems that allow America's busiest city to function. Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anste...
Dallas Campbell explores how we can travel further and faster than ever.
Dallas Campbell climbs the world's tallest building and dives beneath Mexico City.
Dan Snow investigates post-war communal living during the Soviet Union.
Dan Snow visits the heart of Russia politics, the Kremlin.
Anita Rani investigates a system that is attempting to find solutions to Moscow's traffic problem.
Anita Rani experiences the worst rush hour traffic in Europe.
The social and political history of Moscow.
Dan Snow and Anita Rani visit the Moscow Metro and discuss its history.
How Mexico City is tackling pollution.
Dan Snow investigates how Mexico City's police work from the sky.
Anita Rani investigates Mexico City's sewage systems.
Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.
Dan Snow investigates the history of residents of Mexico City since the Aztecs.
Anita Rani investigates the transport systems in ever growing Mexico City.
Ade Adepitan visits residents of Mexico City that have built their own housing.
The experience of live-in domestic workers in Hong Kong.
Anita Rani visits Chungking Mansions, a culturally diverse location in Hong Kong, where people from over hundred...
The history of HSBC and banking in Hong Kong.
Ade Adepitan visits a type of shared accommodation in Hong Kong that many are forced to live in due to extortionate ...
Ade Adepitan investigates the extortionate real estate prices of central Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's busy port is a vital gateway to trade in the South China Sea.
Global trade in Hong Kong's busy harbour.
How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.
Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.
Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.
The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.
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