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Despite stiff competition from elsewhere, New York has remained one of the world’s premier cities. Focusing on the economic connections that are concentrated on New York, the programme first shows how the...
Looks at the Asian cities of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Singapore. Both are striving to be at the regional intersection of global economic matters, but while it is easy to see the futures of these cities...
Four Muscovites from different generations talk about how the collapse of communism in Russia has changed their lives. Stories range from that of a grandmother who shares a small flat with her son and his...
With Mexico City’s population at over 15 million and growing, the city seems almost out of control, with vast areas of squatter settlements standing in stark contrast to rich enclaves surrounded by armed...
Illustrates the effects of the revolution on the peasant communities of Northern Nicaragua. Through the life of a small farmer and co-operative member the film shows some of the major developments and issues...
A critique of Oscar Newman’s book ‘Defensible Space’. It takes a satirical look at the five main codes of knowledge that underpin the notion of ‘defensible space’: animal behaviour, social...
The Three Gorges Dam, the largest engineering project since the Great Wall and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic...
Looks at the ‘economic miracle’ brought about in Brittany chiefly as a result of the co-operative organisation of Brittany farmers. Considers the effects of the social history of Brittany, the effects of...
The argument is that one cannot understand any aspect of the built form - whether it is an individual building or a city - without looking at the nature of the social process that produced it and sustains...
Part 1: From the first contacts to the culminating conflict - the whole struggle of New England and New France, and the economic contest between the St Lawrence trade system and the Atlantic-Hudson system....
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