Exploring how we have been redesigning the planet as we build ever more astonishing places to live. In Dubai, we climb to the very top of the world's tallest building-over half a mile above the desert sand-to help clean the highest windows in the world. In China, the rate of change is accelerating as millions move into the cities; to keep pace, they have learned to erect 30-storey buildings in under three weeks. The world is changing underneath our feet too; we dive beneath Mexico City with the two-man team whose unenviable job is to keep the city sewers flowing, before examining a very new-world solution to this age-old problem.

Originally released by BBC, 2012. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 23, 2019.

Squeezing Everyone In (7:07); --History of Height (3:55); -- The New World's Tallest (5:42); -- Accelerated Change (4:49); -- The Flatpack Future (2:58); -- The World's Biggest Plumbing Job (8:36); -- Weathering the Storm (6:25); -- Favelas (4:46); -- Summary and Credits: A Place To Live (2:23); .