Season 1
13 episodes · 2011
1San Francisco
A city with a history of the trend and counter trend, San Francisco is home to living a greener and simpler life.
2Cape Town
With more than 50 percent of its population under the age of 24, change is being ushered in by Cape Town's youth; optimism, hope and resilience pit themselves against the lingering wounds of apartheid.
3Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is the international capital of Bauhaus architecture and an example of tolerant co-existence.
4Bangkok
Bangkok is a city in motion; traffic is impossibly dense: cars, boats, overcrowded streets; beneath the culture of chaos, this Buddhist city possesses a deep and permanent respect for well-being.
5Helsinki
Helsinki, a leader in social policy, innovator in telecommunications and the sauna capital of the world, is composed of 150 islands.
6Melbourne
More than 80 languages are spoken on the streets of the Australian city of Melbourne.
7Houston
Having been defined by NASA, petroleum and cowboy ways, Houston is surprisingly liberal.
8Reykjavik
Hot water geysers dominate Reykjavik's landscape.
9Havana
Frozen in time, Havana reveals some of its secrets; meet the photographers of the Cuban revolution and learn about the reality and role of socialism, baseball and salsa dancing, and visit the rooftop gardens that feed 90 percent of the local population.
10Moscow
Moscow is located between five rivers and seven seas and is known as the global capital of the outrageous.
11Marseilles
The oldest city in France is a city of contradictions.
12Buenos Aires
The people of Buenos Aires, known as the Paris of the Americas, live life to the fullest.
13Lisbonfinale
Lisbon has been transformed over the past 20 years into Europe's most cosmopolitan city.