Episode list

How Cities Work

Power Games

Sat, Nov 16, 2013
This episode explores the technological infrastructure that keeps the world's cities alive with activity, from the electricity that powers computers to the clean water flowing from showers and the vast supplies of food in shops. Includes an insight into the work of people who perform the unsung tasks to maintain these metropolitan centres, and the engineers responsible for making ingenious plans to ensure cities can cater for rocketing populations.
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Food Fight

Sat, Nov 23, 2013
The documentary highlighting the work of those responsible for keeping the world's cities alive with activity continues, this time looking at how food is replenished.
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Concrete Jungle

Sat, Nov 30, 2013
The latest episode of this barnstorming series follows the final stages of construction on a space-saving skyscraper in central London.
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Transport Tales

Sat, Dec 07, 2013
An insight into how transport links - a city's veins and arteries - are created and maintained, which is an endless task demanding brain and brawn.
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Water World

Sat, Dec 14, 2013
A look at how cities across the world provide water to billions of people - a challenge that becomes more and more complex with every passing year.
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