Supersized Earth
Supersized Earth traces the spectacular story of how humans have transformed our world in a generation. Dallas Campbell travels the globe, visiting the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world.
- 2012-2012
- 1 season
- Documentary
Supersized Earth traces the spectacular story of how humans have transformed our world in a generation. Dallas Campbell travels the globe, visiting the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world.
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Season 1 Episode Guide
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.
Awards
- 2012 - BAFTA Television Craft Award - Photography and Lighting - Nominated
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