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Shibam Yemen is home to some of the world’s oldest skyscrapers - contiguous mud-brick tower buildings rising five to nine stories high that have stood for seven centuries, but their preservation could prove difficult. (3 min)

National Geographic explores the building techniques at Machu Picchu. Temples, altars and residences of this steep mountain city have resisted torrential rains, landslides and earth tremors since being abandoned by the Incas. (46 min)

PBS documentary about China’s Three Gorges Dam where two million Chinese are displaced during this construction on the Yangtze River. (46 min)

The first episode of PBS Building Green lays the groundwork for a dream home that is as green as green can go. (24 min)

Vanguard goes to China’s impoverished interior province to look at Chongqing, a city of 12 million people and growing at breakneck speed. (28 min)

Episode Ten of PBS Building Green explores creative water systems that reduce, reuse and recycle your H2O. (22:34 min)

This PBS e2 episode explores residential reuse of structural components from Boston’s Big Dig. (25:44 min)

e2 follows architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he continues his mission to provide architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crisis regions. (25:45 min)