A Place to Live

Summary Dallas Campbell visits cities to demonstrate and experience how human building activities, mainly there, changes our environment. Dhubai's highest building is the pinnacle of a long dream of scraping the sky even higher, which took a huge flight in a century thanks to advanced engineering, new materials and aerodynamics. Mexico city poses an extreme case of mega-efforts required for public facilities, such as sewage disposal. China over the latests decades dwarfs all records in urban expansion, which already houses half of the world population, yet on 'only' one percent of the land mass.

S1.E1 ∙ A Place to Live

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Sunita Williams Dallas Campbell Chris Gerdes Zhang Hangming

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 20, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom)

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) China Central Television (CCTV) Discovery UK

Summary Dallas Campbell visits cities to demonstrate and experience how human building activities, mainly there, changes our environment. Dhubai's highest building is the pinnacle of a long dream of scraping the sky even higher, which took a huge flight in a century thanks to advanced engineering, new materials and aerodynamics. Mexico city poses an extreme case of mega-efforts required for public facilities, such as sewage disposal. China over the latests decades dwarfs all records in urban expansion, which already houses half of the world population, yet on 'only' one percent of the land mass.

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 20, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom)

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) China Central Television (CCTV) Discovery UK

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