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- Format: DVD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Run Time: 50 minutes
- Region: 1
One of the most crowded cities in the world – and also one of the shortest on available land area – Tokyo, Japan is a city bursting at the seams. Hoping to relieve the stress of alarming overpopulation, the city's construction industry has trained its sights on the only vacant lot around – the waters of Tokyo Bay. Witness the impossible dream of city planners: to build a massive pyramid over the water, with skyscrapers suspended like peapods within its enormous frame.
Called the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid, it would stand a kilometer tall and provide housing for up to 750,000 people. Even more amazing, the entire construction process may proceed without the work of a single human builder. With the invention of new super-lightweight materials, humanoid robots and self-assembling structures, the pyramid might be the first city in the world to build itself!
But troubling questions linger. Can scientists feed this hungry giant enough electrical power? And, can engineers protect it from one of nature's most terrifying forces – deadly native tidal waves called tsunamis?
Follow top builders and scientists in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Scotland and Wales hard at work tackling these and other problems as they set the stage for the construction of one of the most daring feats of engineering ever attempted.
This title is part of Season 1.
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