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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

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Dan finds out why some communal buildings succeed where others fail.

Dan Cruickshank explores how architecture enables people to live together across the world, visiting Brasilia, the Rockefeller Centre in New York and Dharavi in Mumbai.

Dan sets out to reveal how architecture enables people to live together across the world. He finds vibrant communities in extraordinary buildings and towns across the globe - but why do some places succeed and others fail?

He visits Brasilia, an ideal city built by communists, which is now the preserve of the super-rich. In the Middle East he travels to Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, to unravel the secrets of its longevity. 

The Rockefeller Centre in New York is one of the city's most famous skyscrapers - but how did a building borne from the American Depression become a 'city within a city'? And Dan explores Dharavi in Mumbai, the biggest slum in India - a functioning home to millions, but now under threat of demolition.

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Dan Cruickshank explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments.

Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a creative force as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments.

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