The Life-Sized City

Despite Argentina's history of political and economic upheaval, the nation's capital Buenos Aires has remained relatively stable.

Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a young city undergoing rapid change and development within a fragile governmental framework; while the island boasts one of the highest economic growth rates in Asia, it maintains a tenuous relationship with China.

Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city and in the semi-automomous area of Catalonia that has about 6 million people.

Once considered the Paris of the Middle East, the ancient city of Beirut has survived brutal civil war and conflicts with Israel among many ongoing problems.

When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the United States' Gulf Region in 2005, killing over 1800 people, displacing over a million and causing over 151 billion dollars US in damages, New Orleans was caught in the eye of the storm.

Toronto has always cast a long shadow on the city of Hamilton, Ontario: it's bigger, it's more economically successful, and people want to live there; but times are changing, and Hamiltonians reveal that great things come in mid-sized packages, too.