Urban challenges

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.

6: Urbanisation | World 2000

Can cities sustain the amount of people living in them? How can people improve them?

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 1 | Return to Forgotten Britain

In 2000 the BBC's foreign correspondent Fergal Keane visited some of Britain's hard pressed communities. In this follow up series, he...

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.

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...

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...

Paris | The Geography Programme

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...

Episode 3 | Welcome to India

This follows three families as they search for a better life today and for generations to come.

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.

Trickiest Tunnel | The Limit

Hugh Doherty has spent a lifetime building tunnels. But now he is facing his biggest challenge yet - building London Underground's new Jubilee L...

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.

2: Revolutionary Paris | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow sniffs out the French revolution to explore how Paris was once buried in an inescapable stench.

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...

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...

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...

Get Rich or Die Young | Panorama

Richard Bilton visits Stockton, the town with the country's worst health inequality, to investigate variances in life expectancy between it ...

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...

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.

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.

Episode 2 | New York: America’s Busiest City

A look at the astonishing daily systems that allow America's busiest city to function. Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anste...

2: The Way We Move | Supersized Earth

Dallas Campbell explores how we can travel further and faster than ever.

1: A Place to Live | Supersized Earth

Dallas Campbell climbs the world's tallest building and dives beneath Mexico City.

Housing in the City | World’s Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates post-war communal living during the Soviet Union.

The Kremlin | World’s Busiest Cities

Dan Snow visits the heart of Russia politics, the Kremlin.

Traffic Solution | World’s Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates a system that is attempting to find solutions to Moscow's traffic problem.

Traffic Problem | World’s Busiest Cities

Anita Rani experiences the worst rush hour traffic in Europe.

Soviet Russia | World’s Busiest Cities

The social and political history of Moscow.

The Metro | World’s Busiest Cities

Dan Snow and Anita Rani visit the Moscow Metro and discuss its history.

Pollution Problems | World’s Busiest Cities

How Mexico City is tackling pollution.

Crime | World’s Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates how Mexico City's police work from the sky.

Waste Management | World’s Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates Mexico City's sewage systems.

Water Shortage | World’s Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.

Agriculture in the City | World’s Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates the history of residents of Mexico City since the Aztecs.

Transport in the City | World’s Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates the transport systems in ever growing Mexico City.

Urban sprawl | World’s Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits residents of Mexico City that have built their own housing.

Migrant Workers | World’s Busiest Cities

The experience of live-in domestic workers 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...

Free Trade | World’s Busiest Cities

The history of HSBC and banking in Hong Kong.

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 ...

Overcrowding | World’s Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates the extortionate real estate prices of central Hong Kong.

South China Sea Trade | World’s Busiest Cities

Hong Kong's busy port is a vital gateway to trade in the South China Sea.

Trade | World’s Busiest Cities

Global trade in Hong Kong's busy harbour.

Slum Clearance | Welcome to Lagos

How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.

The Megacity Project | Welcome to Lagos

Rural to urban migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

Industrial Work | Welcome to Lagos

Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.

Informal settlements | Welcome to Lagos

The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.