June 2013
The elusive alchemy that makes a good city a great place to live is something we've been dedicated to understanding since Monocle began. With a sharper eye than ever, we present our top 25.
June 2013
This June saw the second annual New Cities Summit, this year held in São Paulo. From mayors to tech entrepreneurs, city-lovers gathered in Brazil’s business capital to take on some of our greatest urban challenges. Monocle…
June 2013
World-conquering urban quality of life requires the trickiest of balancing acts between progress and preservation, stimulation and security, global and local. Perfection is unobtainable but Copenhagen is striking one of the…
May 2013
Our foreign editor, Steve Bloomfield, and photographer Sebastian Meyer visit Sulaymaniyah, the cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan to meet the artists, journalists and musicians putting the city on the map.
May 2013
With the city’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics in full swing, the fabric of Istanbul is shaping up. We meet the cultural and commercial players flexing their muscles.
April 2013
Hong Kong’s east side is a former industrial neighbourhood undergoing a renaissance. We explore the warehouses that are now home to stores, galleries and innovative start-ups moving away from downtown.
March 2013
Waves of immigrants from Finland have arrived on Canadian shores over the past century, making Thunder Bay the most Finnish city beyond the Baltic.
March 2013
Under the leadership of a progressive mayor, Kaohsiung in the south of Taiwan is no longer the neglected sibling of the capital Taipei. With its harbour being redeveloped and refreshed infrastructure within the city, Mon…
January 2013
No one is better placed to offer valuable advice on tricky projects and ambitious, world-changing actions than the people at the sharp end - precisely the kind of individuals giving the benefit of their hard-won experience…
January 2013
Investment from Beijing and abroad has brought a boom to Chengdu, capital ofSichuan province. Monocle visits the city to gauge its progress.
December 2012
Each Swiss valley has its own culture - even language. Locals make the most of their isolation but also know how to sell their skills. The Lower Engadine has perfected this lost-world vibrancy.
November 2012
Monocle's third annual Soft Power Survey is an attempt to push the debate on where soft power comes from and how to use it. With current shifts in the global power balance, never has it been more relevant.
November 2012
No election is as large and as talked about as the race for the White House. Monocle 24 dispatched a team to New York to cover the vote for a special series of Midori House broadcasts and our film team was on hand to cap…
October 2012
In Japan, if you're not doing ‘Rajio Taiso’ you're either dead or you've slept in. Millions of Japanese rise early every morning to get together and do radio exercises – the rest do them at work.
September 2012
Maputo's turbulent history includes colonial rule, war and regime change. And it's a rich history told in the buildings that line the streets of Mozambique's capital.
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