With world population topping 5 billion and industrialization and agricultural mechanization both increasing apace, the greatest stress point is the city. The population of Mexico City was 8 million in 1970; 18 million in 1990; it will exceed 30 million by the year 2000. The problems multiply with the population—housing, employment, food supplies, transportation, and waste disposal, to name only a few. The problems come with urbanization, but they are different in different cities. This program looks at the city of Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast—a city created at the end of the 19th century by the French colonial government as the country’s administrative center. A railroad terminus was built, the port developed, and streets laid out on a grid. After independence was achieved, the city became more important and more crowded, with population growing 10% annually. The result: denser and denser housing, fewer and fewer amenities, and less and less public effort to control or ameliorate the problems. (24 minutes)