Name: The Life-Sized City
Uploaded: 2024-05-23T23:36:24.000Z
Description: Urban designer and mobility expert Mikael Colville-Andersen travels around the world to meet people with ideas on bettering their cities and communities.

Urban designer and mobility expert Mikael Colville-Andersen travels around the world to meet people with ideas on bettering their cities and communities.

Indigenius

A rose among the thorns in South American cities, few places have been so successful in tackling social problems head on with urbanism, architecture and greening of the urban landscape.

Medellín

Mikael travels to Toronto to meet the people working to make the city more livable.

Toronto

Mikael travels to lesser known areas of Paris, France to meet the people who are making change and inspiring solutions to improve everyday life for people.

Paris

Mikael travels to Bangkok to meet citizens who are fighting back against political upheavals and social instability.

Bangkok

Tel Aviv

Mikael travels to Tokyo, where he finds out there is so much more going on than the city's size, endless towers and glittering neon.

Tokyo

The people of Cape Town are working to create democratic inclusiveness through the use of urban projects.

Cape Town

Despite being the largest city of the Western Hemisphere, the people of Mexico City view it as a village or as a patchwork of many villages.

Mexico City

Mikael learns about his own city of Copenhagen and meets its people who are working to make the city a top favourite to live in.

Copenhagen

Since the 2015 World Expo, the city of Milan has redefined itself with new skyscrapers, public and private initiatives and urban renewal projects.

Milan

In 2013, the city of Detroit, situated less than four kilometers from Windsor, files for bankruptcy.

Detroit and Windsor

The city of Montreal, the most populated French-speaking city in North America, offers a mix of creativity and is described by some as half Paris, half Brooklyn.

Montréal

Despite Argentina's history of political and economic upheaval, the nation's capital Buenos Aires has remained relatively stable.

Buenos Aires

Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a young city undergoing rapid change and development within a fragile governmental framework; while the island boasts one of the highest economic growth rates in Asia, it maintains a tenuous relationship with China.

Taipei

Spain's second-largest city is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe, with around 30 million tourists visiting Barcelona each year.

Barcelona

Once considered the Paris of the Middle East, the ancient city of Beirut has survived brutal civil war, ongoing conflicts with Israel, political assassinations and endless bombings.

Beirut

When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the United States' Gulf Region in 2005, killing over 1800 people, displacing over a million and causing over 151 billion dollars US in damages, New Orleans was caught in the eye of the storm.

New Orleans

Toronto has always cast a long shadow on the city of Hamilton, Ontario: it's bigger, it's more economically successful, and people want to live there; but times are changing, and Hamiltonians reveal that great things come in mid-sized packages, too.

The Life-Sized City

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