Episodes

Superstorm City: New York

This film explores the geology that shaped the city’s past and challenges its future

Heatwave City: Chicago

The city’s leading engineers and geologists reveal the secrets inside Chicago

Sinking City: Venice

How did Venice come to thrive in such an inhospitable place

Megaquake City: Tokyo

Tokyo’s engineers and geologists reveal the ingenious technology that keeps the skyscrapers standing

Hurricane City: New Orleans

How does the city’s buildings and infrastructure survive the onslaught of hurricanes?

Cavern City: Paris

We peel back the boulevards to reveal the threat that lies just 60 feet below ground.

Inca Empire: Machu Picchu

Constantly under threat from earthquakes, landslides and floods how did this ancient city survive for over 400 years?

Earthquake City: Los Angeles

How does the city’s buildings and infrastructure survive the onslaught of a destructive earthquake?

Hurricane City: New Orleans

Strip the City uses stunning CGI animation to strip the hurricane city - New Orleans layer by layer to explore the secret technology and infrastructure that keeps it running.

New Orleans is standing on the edge of disaster. Built along the banks of the mighty Mississippi this vibrant city of culture and jazz is completely surrounded by water. Loosing land fast to the Gulf of Mexico, sitting on unstable silty mud, it is also directly in the firing line of hurricanes every year.

How does the city’s buildings and infrastructure survive the onslaught of these deadly forces? This film takes apart a hurricane, looks beneath the city’s great superdome to see how it can survive 1000 mph winds, we reveal how its skyscrapers stop themselves sinking and how there is now a plan to build the biggest network of pump stations in the world, which will prevent the city flooding, however big the hurricane.

Stunning CGI animation peels the glass off its skyscrapers, lifts up its bridges to see how they survive a super storm, and lifts the roof of the iconic Superdome to reveal it’s inner workings.

This film explores the geology that shaped the city’s past and challenges its future, from the silt into which the city is sinking to the barriers that will prevent the next hurricane hitting New Orleans.

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for Discovery Science Channel, Discovery Channel EMEA, France TV, SBS, Quest