(felix colville-andersen) i think it's funny how grandpa only honks the horn maybe five times a year, whereas the taxi drivers maybe do it 100 times in one drive. (mikaelolville-andersen) paris is a storied city. more than most others in the world. it's a city that's synonymous with inspiring change. fighting for it, demanding it, forcing it. this is a birthplace of revolutions, and right now,

[mikael colville-andersen] when we travel to other cities, we often experience a sense of familiarityty. fragments of the urban landscape remind us of somewhere else. it could be street typology, architecture, topography, even just a feeling of another place. not once, however, has it ever happened to me here. there is no where else like it on the planet, and it's quite impossible to imagine that there ever could be. in order to discover the life-sized city here, i have to ignore the vast scale of the urban landscape because this... is tokyo.

[mikael colville-andersen] is everything i've heard about this place really true? is it a little architectural wonderland? is it a throbbing, pulsing miami of the mediterranean? can it really be one of the world's great lgbt capitals, here in a region plagued by violence and living under a constant threat of war? i'm in tel aviv. but i'm also in a city that i've heard will surprise me. for more than 70 years at least, the news coming out of this region has been overwhelmingly negative. i'm going to look past the propaganda and the fancy city branding, and i'm going to meet passionate locals who will explain to me, in no uncertain terms, their urban reality.

those forces have been targeting residential areas in triripoli [mikael colville-andersen] is everythingheard about this place really true? is it a little architectural wonderland? is it a throbbing, pulsing miami of the mediterranean? can it really be one of the world's great lgbt capitals, here in a region plagued by violence and living under a constant threat of war? i'm in tel aviv. but i'm also in a city that i've heard will surprise me. for more than 70 years at least, the news coming out of this region has been overwhelmingly negative. i'm going to look past the propaganda and the fancy city branding, and i'm going to meet passionate locals who will explain to me, in no uncertain terms, their urban reality.

[mikael colville-andersen] when we travel to other cities, we often experience a sense of familiarityty the urban landscape remind us of somewhere else. it could be street typology, architecture, topography, even just a feeling of another place. not once, however, has it ever happened to me here. there is no where else like it on the planet, and it's quite impossible to imagine that there ever could be. in order to discover the life-sized city here, i have to ignore the vast scale of the urban landscape because this... is tokyo.

correspondent: the president remains extremely popular, but now it seems [mikael colville-andersen] it'sn 20 years since the end of apartheid. like many iconic cities, cape town's reputation precedes it. i've heard the same thing from friends and colleagues around the world: "man, the beaches. the food, the wine!" but outside that glossy, gentrified, rich and incredibly white urban bubble, has the power of democracy and the quest for equality improve lives here on the cape? is urbanism being used as an effective tool for urban change? we're heading deep into the real and raw urban landscape of a moderern cape town.

on february 20 ninth, peter navarro, in a letter addressed to the president, had outli [mikael colville-andersenfirst came to bangkok in the early 1990's as an impressionable young backpacker. the city fulfilled absolutely every expectation i had about a noisy, crazy, non-stop asian city should be like. absolutely every urban challenge faced by cities around the world is amplified here in bangkok. this country is run by a military dictatorship who's also trying to influence urban development and urban planning. there are very few examples from history where that story has a happy ending. this series is about finding the life-sized pockets of goodness in cities around the world. there's still a refreshing insane madneness to this place. outside of the comfort zone of this amazing market lies the urban jungle.

(felix colville-andersen) i think it's funny how grandpa only honks the horn maybe five times a year, whereas the taxi drivers maybe do it 100 times in one drive. (mikael colville-andersen) paris is a storied city. more than most others in the world. it's a city that's synonymous with inspiring change. fighting for it, demanding it, forcing it. this is a birthplace r

[mikael colville-andersen] i first came to bangkok in the early 1990's as an impressionable young backpacker. the city fulfilled absolutely every expectation i had about a noisy, crazy, non-stop asian city should be like. absolutely every urban challenge faced by cities around the world is amplified here in bangkok. this country is run by a military dictatorship who's also trying to influence urban development and urban planning. there are very few examples from history where that story has a happy ending. this series is about finding the life-sized pockets of goodness in cities around the world. there's still a refreshing insane madneness to this place. outside of the comfort zone of this amazing market lies the urban jungle.