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Urban planners and average citizens in Thailand and Bogota are seeking solutions to ease congestion in their crowded cities.
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Looking back to traditional practices can help us find modern solutions to various environmental and social issues of city life.
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Big cities attract dreamers from all over the world. This episode features the people building communities of inclusion for immigrants.
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Many people are ditching the confines of traditional apartment life and opting for communal living instead.
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The heart of many large cities lies in their historic neighborhoods but across the world, the cultural vitality of these neighborhoods is threatened by the forces of gentrification and aging infrastructure. Hear from the people of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles and the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam as they work to improve and preserve their communities.
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Maintaining a sustainable way of life through organic farming is possible — even in big cities.
Colin Boyd Shafer took on the challenge to photograph one person from every country of the world to showcase the beauty of diversity. The catch? They all had to be people who now call Toronto home.
The concept developers of "Big Cities" tell us how they built a worldwide television and cross-media collection of stories about innovative ways to improve living conditions in major urban areas.
By immersing themselves in local cultures, the members of an artist collective known are changing the world one mural at a time.
In a Hong Kong where enormous banyan trees shade the ruins of one of the world’s first industrial dairy farms, citizens are taking a greater stance in protecting their cultural heritage and endangered wildlife.
Having suffered great climatic, social, and political changes for centuries, the people native to Peru's Quehue region have learned to face change armed only with their ancestral knowledge.
