City Life
Marta Suplicy is the new mayor of Sao Paolo, Brazil -- a breath of fresh air after years of municipal apathy and corruption. Her aim is to make Sao Paulo a sustainable 21st century global city.
This program, the first from the City Life series, foll...
Lines in the Dust
In revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated. In a small village in Northern Ghana, a group of men and women sit around in a semi-circle, discussing the chart that they have drawn...
The Long March
China is already home to a fifth of the world's population. To relieve the pressure on scarce farm land and fragile topsoil, the Chinese government is building four hundred new cities over the next 20 years, each housing over half a million resident...
Together Against Violence
Bennetlands is a ghetto community in the heart of Kingston, Jamaica -- home to five thousand people. Half of them are under 25 and over two thousand are unemployed. Once, despite the poverty, Bennetlands was a peaceful place, with daily life revolvi...
Pavements of Gold
Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. In 1950, three hundred million people were living in urban areas; by 2001 that figure had increased to 2.85 billion, or almost half the world's population. And the ...