Supersized Earth

Episode 1

A Place to Live

58 mins

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.