
Glittering facades, vibrant life, and people facing the daily struggle for survival. ZDF correspondents each profile a megacity within their reporting area. How do people celebrate, laugh, and love in such a city? How are problems like housing shortages, food supply, transportation, and climate change solved – in metropolises with over ten million inhabitants?
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Air Date: 2024-01-02
This megacity is growing relentlessly and is not for the faint of heart. Anyone wanting to experience China simply ca...
Air Date: 2024-01-03
Mexico City was once feared; today, the megacity is a tourist hotspot. The city has retained its fighting spirit – in...
Air Date: 2024-01-04
Lagos is growing faster than any other city in the world. A megacity of extremes: while many of its 25 million inhabi...
Air Date: 2024-03-31
Extraordinary people, touching stories and mysterious places.
Air Date: 2024-12-30
As night falls over the Thames, those sharp contrasts emerge that make London arguably the most interesting and inter...
Air Date: 2025-01-02
Rio de Janeiro is Sugarloaf Mountain, the Christ the Redeemer statue, and Copacabana. When night falls, culture and m...
Air Date: 2025-05-01
Between tradition, chaos, and constant upheaval: How does beleaguered Istanbul, with its 16 million inhabitants, mana...
Air Date: 2025-07-31
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Air Date: 2025-08-07
Vienna is beautiful. Framed by the facades of the Austro-Hungarian era, people enjoy culture and coffee, clattering p...
Air Date: 2025-12-29
When pilot Ky sees the Toronto skyline during her evening approach, it's the happiest moment of her day. The financia...
Air Date: 2026-05-25
City of love, fashion metropolis, place of longing for millions of people – that is Paris, often described as the mos...