The City Show
Episodes
Who owns the future?
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of The City Show: An Unstoppable Force, we look ahead to Africa's urban future. With cities growing faster than anywhere else on...
Life in Full Colour
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The City Show, we hit the streets to see how people are shaping everyday life in three very different African cities. In Nairobi's ...
The Inheritance
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When African countries gained independence, most cities still looked like the ones the colonisers left behind—European-style centers for the privile...
Trailer: Season 3
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Season Three of The City Show, titled An Unstoppable Force, focuses entirely on Africa. It traces how the continent's cities came to be what they are ...
Riyadh: Massive Change
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode on transit and public space, the New York Times' Vivian Nereim tells us about the accelerated transformation of Riyadh as Saudi ...
Johannesburg: The Long Road Home
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Johannesburg was awarded the 2010 World Cup, the race was on—literally—for the city's leadership to figure out how to transport large numbers...
Medellin: Social Urbanism
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Alejandro Echeverri Restrepo became Medellin's Director of Urban Projects in 2004, the city was trying to recover from years of violence visited ...
Tijuana: A Simple Plan
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009, Mexican architect Raul Cardenas Osuna enlisted a team of scientists, programmers and artists and to work for his organisation. At Torolab, he...
Lagos: A Promised Land
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eko Atlantic, a private estate modelled on Dubai and built in Lagos, was called a "game changer" for Africa's real estate market. The multibillion-dol...
Beirut: Condemned To Hope
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fashion designer George Azzi and Urbanist Mona Harb love Beirut. They have lived through the city's multiple crises and survived its tragedies. Both a...
Rio de Janeiro: A Dilemma in Vidigal
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brazilian architect Pedro Henrique de Cristo moved into a Rio favela called Vidigal, determined to do work with impact. After years running a celebr...
Mumbai: Built Up, Fed Up!
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do the world's second most expensive private home, a spate of serial bombings, and a seemingly innocuous statute titled "Floor Space Index Regula...
Cape Town: It's Complicated
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bo Kaap, a once close-knit community in the heart of Cape Town's city centre survived South Africa's draconian apartheid-era laws. Now, its residents ...