Urban planning
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- Posted23 October 2019
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- Posted11 October 2019
CrowdScience. Can we prevent traffic jams? Audio, 35 minutes
Should our cities cater less for cars and what are the alternatives?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Five Faces of Leonardo. Leonardo's City. Audio, 14 minutes
Bionic City design scientist Melissa Sterry visits Milan to assess Da Vinci’s legacy.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Manhattan-chester. Audio, 28 minutes
Manchester's skyline is transforming - but what lies behind a radical change?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Smart Cities. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor presents a special edition recorded at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
People Fixing The World. Urban Cable Cars. Audio, 23 minutes
Can cable cars help poor communities feel more connected?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
High Rise. Audio, 38 minutes
A meditation on the enduring dream - and the potential nightmare - of tower block life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
People Fixing The World. Superblocks to the Rescue? Audio, 23 minutes
How they are redesigning the road system to reclaim the city from cars in Barcelona
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Green Cities from Bricks and Mortar. Audio, 28 minutes
Historian Dan Cruickshank asks if new garden cities are the answer to our housing crisis.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Gentrification. Audio, 30 minutes
David Baker asks if too much gentrification is a bad thing?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Cities from the Ashes. Audio, 38 minutes
350 years after the Great Fire, Nicholas Kenyon explores the challenges for London today.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essential. From Our Own Correspondent: A Ghost of Saudi's Future? Audio, 6 minutes
Stephen Sackur ponders the aims (and reality) of the vast KAEC project in Saudi Arabia
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Map That Made Manhattan. Audio, 30 minutes
Exploring the Manhattan grid as city matrix, psychic space and a bold political ideal.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
The Forum. Future Cities. Audio, 41 minutes
Smart and eco-cities are design buzz-words – but how realistic are such plans globally?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
One Planet. The New Town Nobody Wanted. Audio, 18 minutes
Rural poor snub Mexican new town and Calcutta goes blue - what makes a liveable city?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Thinking Streets. Audio, 30 minutes
Angela Saini explores shared space - an idea set to bring peace and harmony to our streets
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One Planet. Forest fights and calming cities. Audio, 18 minutes
The environmental battles over the paper industry, plus urban design and the London riots.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
One Planet. The EU and the environment, plus the endless city. Audio, 18 minutes
The EU's environment commissioner plus a look at urban growth around the world
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
One Planet. Cities for people, old trees and missing billions. Audio, 28 minutes
Why cities are built for cars not people, plus $40bn goes missing
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Costing the Earth. Eco-City Limits. Audio, 30 minutes
Tom Heap tests the limits of an eco-city being built in a desert.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Automotive. Programme 3 - The Golden Age. Audio, 24 minutes
Why the mid-20th century is considered the golden-age of motor travel
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Agenda. The City of the Future. Audio, 25 minutes
More than half the world's people live in cities. How do we make them fit for the future?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Visionaries. Habitation and Buildings. Audio, 4 minutes
Predictions that commerce and politics will lead to changes in urban planning
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
