Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a creative force as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments. Dan sets out to reveal how architecture enables people to live together across the world. He finds vibrant communities in extraordinary buildings - but why do some places succeed and others fail? To find out, Dan visits Brasilia, an ideal city built by communists, the Rockefeller Centre in New York and Dharavi in Mumbai, the biggest slum in India.

丹访问巴西的首都巴西利亚和大马士革。大马士革被认为是世界上最古老的连续居住的城市。丹还在美国最富有的纽约的洛克菲勒中心和印度最大的贫民窟孟买达拉维做对比