Strip the City
Program Details
CGI reveals how the Earth's geology shapes our cities.
Strip the City uses stunning CGI animation and expedition-driven actuality to strip major cities naked of their steel, concrete, air, ocean, and bedrock–layer. By exploring a city’s hidden infrastructure this series attempts to solve mysteries surrounding its origins, including its geology, archaeology, industry, weather patterns, and engineering.
What stops Dubai’s towering skyscrapers—balanced on piles of unstable sand—from toppling over? Why is Singapore excavating a sprawling network of subterranean caves under the city to store oil and house people? Strip the City explores these geological mysteries by stripping the city to expose the naked, natural infrastructure lying deep beneath.
Season 2: Windfall Films Ltd. (part of the Argonon Group) for Science Channel (US), Discovery (Europe), and France Televisions (France)
Featured Locations:
- Chicago
- Paris
- Tokyo
- Venice
- Los Angeles
- New Orleans
- Inca Empire
