The way our cities are built is a quiet global catastrophe affecting all our lives. Buildings are too flat, too plain, too straight, too shiny, too soulless, too boring. This is far from a trivial issue - it's bad for our health, bad for society, and bad for the planet. This is the belief of designer Thomas Heatherwick.

Backed by the latest cutting-edge scientific research, Thomas exposes the damage being done by the identikit modern urban environments scattered across the world.