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Cities and Migration

Can our cities cope in the face of rapid urbanisation?

Can our cities cope in the face of rapid urbanisation? We hear from the megacity of Dhaka in Bangladesh, where migrants are struggling with poor water, health and schooling services.

We also go to Beijing, where marathon runners last year were force to pull out, or run in masks, because air pollution was at dangerous levels.

Ed Butler talks to Leo Johnson, co-author of Turnaround Challenge: Business and the City of the Future and Sir David King, Chairman of the Future Cities Catapult and currently the British Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change.

Plus, the independent economist Andy Xie joins the debate from Hong Kong.

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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 26 Oct 2014 02:32GMT

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  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 07:32GMT
  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 17:32GMT
  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 23:32GMT
  • Sun 26 Oct 2014 02:32GMT

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