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Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 14:04 GMT 15:04 UK


CITY LIVING

Making Cities Work: Detroit
Architecture critic Dejan Sudjic looks at how Detroit is trying to regenerate itself after the decline of its car industry.

Making Cities Work: Moscow
Architecture critic Dejan Sudjic visits Moscow to see what happens to a city after the collapse of a political regime.

Making Cities Work: China
Architecture critic Dejan Sudjic assesses the sustainability of a village and city in China and its impact in the future.

Making cities work: Mexico City
Architecture critic Dejan Sudjic visits Mexico City to see how people are fighting to make their city more "liveable."


GROWING CITIES

Report reveals global slum crisis
A third of the world's urban population live in slums, often worse off than the rural poor.

Challenges facing an urban world
As the planet nears the point where most people will live in cities, what are the challenges facing an urban world?

Quiz: The world's cities
Test your knowledge of the world's cities, and the urbanisation process which is rapidly turning humans into a primarily urban species.

Slum dwellers 'to top 2 billion'
UN Habitat says the number of slum dwellers will double by 2030 if soaring urbanisation is not managed properly.

Homing in on pricy land problems
A Canadian NGO is tackling the high cost of buying somewhere to live in the modern world.



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