Slumming It

First broadcast June 2006

According to the UN one billion people live in slums and the figure is set to double by 2030. So what can governments do to control unprecedented urban growth and make slums a decent place to live?

Presenter Emma Joseph travels to the Philippines and Brazil

Part One: Philippines

For the first time in human history, the number of people living in urban areas has surpassed those living in rural ones.

With that change has come an exponential growth in the number of cities globally.

Billions of us live in more than three hundred cities around the world, and one million babies are delivered every week in them.

The mass migration of people from the countryside to the town has brought with it a host of problems, one of the most pressing being the dramatic rise in slums.

In the first of two programmes, as part of our Urban Planet season, Emma Joseph reports from Asia where hundreds of millions of people are literally slumming it.

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