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POWER OF PLACE
Video 5 - Transforming the Industrial Heartland
Liverpool: A Tale of Two Cities — Can European Union investment and the growth of service industries turn the tide of economic decline? Randstad: Preserving the Green Heart — Small, crowded Netherlands strives to maintain its transportation connections while preserving dwindling green space.
Liverpool: A Tale of Two Cities — Can European Union investment and the growth of service industries turn the tide of economic decline? Randstad: Preserving the Green Heart — Small, crowded Netherlands strives to maintain its transportation connections while preserving dwindling green space.
Video 7 - Northwest Contrast
St. Petersburg: Russia's Window on the West — What challenges continue to face this Russian port in post-Soviet society?
Vologda: Russian Farming in Flux — How have previously state-owned collective farms changed with privatization?
St. Petersburg: Russia's Window on the West — What challenges continue to face this Russian port in post-Soviet society?
Vologda: Russian Farming in Flux — How have previously state-owned collective farms changed with privatization?
Video 9 - Changes on the Chang Jiang
Shanghai: Head of the Dragon — Shanghai enters the 21st century on a wave of development, ready to reclaim its legacy as China's commercial center.
Sijia: Small Town, Big Change — The steady growth of a township enterprise illustrates three great contrasts in modern China: rural vs. urban, agricultural vs. industrial, coastal vs. interior.
Shanghai: Head of the Dragon — Shanghai enters the 21st century on a wave of development, ready to reclaim its legacy as China's commercial center.
Sijia: Small Town, Big Change — The steady growth of a township enterprise illustrates three great contrasts in modern China: rural vs. urban, agricultural vs. industrial, coastal vs. interior.
Video 10 - The Booming Maritime Edge
Guangdong: Globalization in the Pearl River Delta — This program explores globalization and the effects of modernization on Chinese society.
Taiwan: High-Tech Tiger — What factors contributed to Taiwan's emergence as a high-tech powerhouse?
Guangdong: Globalization in the Pearl River Delta — This program explores globalization and the effects of modernization on Chinese society.
Taiwan: High-Tech Tiger — What factors contributed to Taiwan's emergence as a high-tech powerhouse?
Video 11 - A Challenge for Two Old Cities
Lanzhou: Confluence of Cultures — We travel to the frontiers of Han and Muslim China in the city of Lanzhou.
Shenyang: Hope for China's Rust Belt? — A previously dynamic industrial city continues to struggle with modernizing its manufacturing infrastructure.
Lanzhou: Confluence of Cultures — We travel to the frontiers of Han and Muslim China in the city of Lanzhou.
Shenyang: Hope for China's Rust Belt? — A previously dynamic industrial city continues to struggle with modernizing its manufacturing infrastructure.
Video 13 - Mainland
Laos: Isolated Heart — Laos is emerging from isolation to join the global economy as an exporter of hydroelectric power.
Vietnam: Fertile Dreams — As the world's second largest rice exporter, Vietnam's booming economy is evident in the explosive growth of Ho Chi Minh City.
Laos: Isolated Heart — Laos is emerging from isolation to join the global economy as an exporter of hydroelectric power.
Vietnam: Fertile Dreams — As the world's second largest rice exporter, Vietnam's booming economy is evident in the explosive growth of Ho Chi Minh City.
Video 15 - Global Interaction
Singapore: Gateway to Southeast Asia — High-tech infrastructure, a well-educated workforce and strict government repression have all helped Singapore become a pre-eminent port and one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
Australia: New Links to Asia — Australia shifts its trade from Europe to the Asian "economic tigers."
Singapore: Gateway to Southeast Asia — High-tech infrastructure, a well-educated workforce and strict government repression have all helped Singapore become a pre-eminent port and one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
Australia: New Links to Asia — Australia shifts its trade from Europe to the Asian "economic tigers."
Video 26 - Regions and Economies
Oregon: A Fight for Water — Native Americans and farmers compete for a scarce resource: water.
U.S. Midwest: Spatial Innovations — In the U.S. Midwest, an influx of Japanese automakers has brought more than just new factories to this once-declining manufacturing region.
Oregon: A Fight for Water — Native Americans and farmers compete for a scarce resource: water.
U.S. Midwest: Spatial Innovations — In the U.S. Midwest, an influx of Japanese automakers has brought more than just new factories to this once-declining manufacturing region.
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