There’s fifty calls on the board and there’s four cars to run all day. ibid. switchboard rozzer
It’s been a particularly violent weekend in Flint with detectives investigating three separate homicides. Flint Town s1e6: Devil’s Night, news report
If we don’t get the money, we’re gonna lose police officers. ibid. Council member, re millage
No I don’t trust the police. As many times as they’ve helped me, there’s been that many more times when they haven’t. Flint Town s1e7: Two Worlds, resident
I’ve been laid off three times before. ibid. rozzer Frost
In Flint we’re seeking justice for the citizens who were poisoned; we have filed 51 criminal charges. Flint Town s1e8: The Stand Off, attorney general’s press conference
We’re just not getting it, and I’m not one for begging. ibid. chief rozzer
There’s a very human side of why people are in the circumstances that they are in. And you have to have that empathy. We have to be the social workers and the community police officers and try and resolve days or years of problems in fifteen minutes before we get the next call. ibid. caption rozzer
City Council denied Mayor Weaver’s budget request. The final budget left Chief Johnson with less money than he began with in his first year of office. ibid. caption
In 2017 the US Census Bureau declared Flint the poorest city in America. ibid.
Shenzhen: China’s miracle city. This entire region used to be farmland and fishing villages, home to just 30,000 people. But in just four decades it’s become a teeming metropolis of over 12,000,000 and the epicentre of China’s tech revolution. Reggie in China I: City of the Future, BBC 2019
Huaqiangbei: Electronics centre: It looks like this whole city has become Tottenham Court Road. It’s like an Aladdin’s cave for tech geeks. ibid.
I’m here in Israel in search of the Knights Templar. These guys were thee stuff of legend. So is their gold. During the Crusades these warrior monks battled for God, gold and glory. Somewhere here in the modern city of Acre lies their command centre and possibly their treasure. Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e1: Knights Templar, National Geographic 2019
This is the new golden age of exploration. ibid.
Security was provided by a powerful band of devout but deadly monks – the Knights Templar. ibid.
All across the Holy Land archaeologists have dug up coins concealed within 53 Crusader strongholds. ibid.
Somewhere hidden just beneath the surface of this lagoon is the echoes of this ancient Templar fortress. ibid.
The jungles of Colombia, South America, this is where the legend of El Dorado was born … deep in the jungle, high in the mountains … Somewhere out there is a lost city waiting to be found. Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e2: El Dorado
I’m in the centre of this massive body of water: the Pacific ocean. Something incredible happened here about 800 years ago. In a seemingly unbelievable coincidence, two archaeological wonders just appeared in the Pacific. One, Easter Island where seafarers erected giant stone heads. And the other, the event more enigmatic civilisation that built a place called Nan Madol, a legendary complex of man-made islands and stone structures built right into the coral reef. Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e3: Ghost City of the Pacific
The amount of rock used to build the entire city is nearly 700,000 tons. It’s ancient construction on an unimaginable scale. ibid.
Ever since I first saw this the magical city of Petra in Jordan it just hasn’t left my mind. It’s one of the most beautiful, unusual and iconic cities in the whole world. Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e4: Petra’s Hidden Origins
There’s another lost city carved into the rock near here … Ancient writings suggest that somewhere along this highway lies a Nabataean city hidden in the mountains, one that predates Petra by hundreds of years. ibid.
Machu Picchu: once a vast ceremonial city perched high up in the Andes. Built in the mid-15th century. It was the crowning glory of a vast Inca empire. But its origins are shrouded in mystery. The genius that led to the creation of this iconic city started somewhere. Where there is an end there is also a beginning. Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e5: Inca Island in the Sky
Were those mighty Inca warriors, were they standing on the shoulders of giants, of earlier civilisations? ibid.
Legend claims an ancient site is hidden on the hillside, and here is our first evidence of pre-Inca buildings. ibid.
We zero in on a large terrace … what looks like a plaza … they completely modified the top of this mountain. ibid.
Stonehenge represents a crowning achievement for our ancient ancestors. But why did they build it here? Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e6: Stonehenge
These crazy rocks … They tell a story of us … Imagination, belief, they symbolise what it means to be a human. ibid.
Could this have been one of the first cities? ibid.
The prediction is that by 2050 nearly 70% of the human population will be living in these areas [cities]. Horizon: Chris Packham, 7.7 Billion People and Counting, BBC 2020
Greece 5th century B.C.: over the course of three decades a city and its people led by one man rise to greatness. This is Athens, the birthplace of democracy. But it is Pericles’ city. Pericles built impregnable fortifications. The first senate house. A complex network of pipes to supply his people with fresh water. The most powerful navy in the ancient world. And temples. Lost Worlds: Athens – Ancient Supercity, History 2005-2007
High above the Necropolis, the Parthenon stood as a testament to Athens’ status: it was a superpower. ibid.
A hidden worlds of classified nuclear facilities and secret cities built inside America. 400,000 people were part of this world. But only a handful really knew the truth. It took up half a million acres of land, saw the construction of the largest building in the world, and cost billions of dollars. All for one purpose: to bring an end to the Second World War by building the world’s first atomic bomb … The lost world of the Manhattan Project. Lost Worlds: Secret A Bomb Factories
In 1941 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was still a remote farming area. Within two years according to classified plans and maps it had been transformed into a secret city. It was going to be home to one of the biggest secrets in the Second World War. The US government pretended it didn’t exist. Because this was part of Project X: the Manhattan Project, the race to build the first atomic bomb. ibid.
On the outskirts of Berlin stand the traces of the supercity Adolf Hitler envisioned. Forgotten and abandoned, they are what remains of his attempt to build a new world capital … to remodel the country according to his own vision, and this new city would be the project showpiece. Hitler wanted structures bigger and better than anything that had been built before. Lost Worlds: Hitler’s Supercity
The story of a rebel archaeologist who in 1961 made a discovery that should be as famous as Pompeii: in central Turkey James Mellaart cracked the mystery of when humanity made its first leap out of the Stone Age into the urban living we made today. What he found was the world’s oldest city. Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez s2e3: World’s Oldest City, BBC 2021
His own reputation lies in tatters. Mellaart became engulfed in scandal, accused of forging evidence and stealing from his own sites. ibid.
Jimmy had overturned the idea that there was just one cradle of civilisation. ibid.
There’s no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber
Canopus, the glorious city of Cleopatra lost for over a thousand years. It was a city gleaming with treasures and rich in wonders. Famous for its lavish rituals and infamous for its earthly pleasures. But Canopus vanished without a trace and was lost for centuries. Revealed: Cleopatra’s Lost City, Channel 5 2021
Cleopatra’s lost city has been found, an ancient Egyptian Atlantis found submerged beneath the waves. ibid.
In Cleisthenes’ time there were over a thousand of these city states. Empires Special: The Greeks: Crucible of Civilisation: Revolution, PBS 2000