TEchnology9 - Cities

By the year 2050, three quarters of the world's population will live in urban areas. Looking at robotic systems being developed worldwide we can take a glimpse at the city life of the future. Private transportation with self-driving cars, our homes with automated systems - robots are in our future.

Ten towns designed or re-designed by visionary architects, corporations and citizen are highlighted. All share the goal to transform the lives of their residents through architecture, design and urban planning.

By 2050, 70% of all humans will live in cities. How will we deal with this urban explosion and the colossal problems it will generate.

A documentary series examining the integration of nature and contemporary life in four megacities. New York, Paris, Tokyo and Rio

Explores the engineering feats buried beneath major cities, unveiling ingenious solutions that enable metropolises like London, Rome, and Dubai to flourish despite harsh environments and geological challenges.

Half of the human population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this will increase to 80%. Life in a megacity is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our way of life. But why? The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through four decades. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. 'The Human Scale' meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the centre of our planning.

Urban environments are man-made, so human design seems totally to overtake wildlife habitats. Yet animals abound in cities and suburbs, many as pets or working, but others exempt by religion or even able to pursue their natural life with some fancy adapting, as many animals do in the wild.

A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

Few individuals have had more impact on the American city than architect and planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. In the midst of late nineteenth century urban disorder, Burnham offered a powerful vision of what a civilized American city could look like that provided a compelling framework for Americans to make sense of the world around them. He built some of the first skyscrapers in the world, directed construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition that inspired the City Beautiful Movement, and created urban plans for San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago, Cleveland and Manila all before the profession of urban planning existed. In fact, some say that he invented it. His work sought to reconcile things often thought opposite: the practical and the ideal, business and art, and capitalism and democracy. At the center of it all was the idea of a vibrant urban community.

A true valuable documentary about Paris since the very first settlements around 300 BC by a Celtic Gauls tribe called Parisi, expelled by Romans at 52 BC, the roman named the city as Lutetia Parisiorum, so we must recognize the roman by city's name, after Romans left the city the Franks a northern tribe takes over and on the mid ages the city was surrounded by walls by King Philip Augustus, then came up the Point Neuf, news channels brings fresh waters and finally after French revolution a new city was rebuild!!.

As we descend beneath our modern day cities, we are met with ancient and hidden secrets. Journey with us back through history and rediscover cities of the underworld.

Adam Hart-Davis brings his own inimitable presenting style to this fascinating guided tour of London's most important structures. Each episode reveals the secret history and the extraordinary feats of engineering behind some of the city's greatest landmarks, and uncovers some lesser known gems.

The series Metropolis takes us to the very heart of urban life in antiquity and in the 15th century. It examines a crucial step in the history of civilization and culture: Mankind has advanced to a settled lifestyle, allowing him to organize large social alliances which extend far beyond family and clan. The consequences are critical changes in all facets of life.

Fantastic documentary over London as the first Roman settlement at Thames river on Britannia, the Romans named as Londinium, after a little time was attacked by the Celtic Queen called Boudica who burned the city, after the Roman left the country the nearby Anglo Saxon tribes invaded the empty city and ruled ever since, the new bridge was made, the privileged location on Thames allowed receiving a large ships bringing good and spices, the city grow up until the great fire in 1666, this turning point changes the city's face, Saint Paul' was built and a brand new Iron' bridge was done, the very first underground and sewer system as well, from Londinium to London one the most iconic city in the world!!.

The third and final documentary of this series, New York the most impressive city all over the world, since the first Dutch trading post as New Amsterdam, later on British hands it became on real settlements renamed in homage Duke of York, the first planned street city on USA on isle of Manhattan, explains how the Central Park was conceived, the notable achievement link the New York's harbor to Albany by an overlong channel without any help from federal government, just by the bold visionaries new Yorkers.

City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.

Each episode explores four or more of the 62 cities designated by China as having extraordinary cultural or historical significance.

As we explore the remains of Roman cities, we also follow the story of one such city in Gaul, beset with political corruption and Celtic insurrection.

Celebrities present their favourite world cities

Every day 100,000 flights criss-cross the globe with more than 1 million people in the air at any one time. Dallas Campbell and Dr Hannah Fry explore the world of aviation.

Ancient Inventions looks at of city life developments in the ancient world including skyscrapers, aqueducts, concrete, entertainment, movable type printing, and restaurants.

This ten-part series reveals the hidden workings of our everyday world by using photo-real CGI to explode appliances, objects and machines into their component parts. Combined with access all areas factory footage.