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    How to Build a Healthy City

    Today's cities - home to more than half the world's population - are struggling to deal with a harmful mix of public health problems: populations are ageing, obesity is rising and pollution has reached toxic levels.

    What are cities doing to tackle these enormous problems? In this six-part series, Darren Dodd talked to FT correspondents around the world - from Singapore to Copenhagen - about initiatives designed to make cities healthier and more pleasant places to live.

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    • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
      29 min listen
      Coronavirus exposes health inequalities at heart of city life

      FT correspondents report from London, Paris and New Delhi

    • Tuesday, 24 March, 2020
      25 min listen
      Tokyo and healthy eating

      Japanese cuisine is famous for its healthy properties but what makes it so special?

    • Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
      28 min listen
      New York and fitness

      New York is in the middle of a boutique fitness boom

    • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
      25 min listen
      Air pollution in Pontevedra

      Twenty years ago, Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain pedestrianised its city centre

    • Thursday, 5 March, 2020
      28 min listen
      Social prescribing in Manchester

      A look at the scheme and the lessons to be learnt for the rest of the UK

    • Monday, 24 February, 2020
      30 min listen
      Copenhagen and loneliness

      Darren Dodd speaks to the FT’s Nordic correspondent, Richard Milne, about how people in Copenhagen are tackling this growing health problem

    • Monday, 24 February, 2020
      25 min listen
      Singapore and urban design

      The need for urban design to serve the elderly is becoming more important

    • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
      2 min listen
      Introducing How to Build a Healthy City

      How to Build a Healthy City is a brand new podcast from the Financial Times.

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