01University of Pittsburgh
02Anne Chen and Gary Carlough at Edge Studio
03Restaurant with broadcast studio above, East Liberty
04‘Side by side’ prototype at Disney Research
05Josh Debner from Deeplocal
06Disney research team
07Telsa Touch prototype, Disney Research
08Eric Shiner, director of the Warhol Museum
09Gates Center for Computer Science
10Deeplocal team
11Human Engineering Research Labs
12Pittsburgh skyline
13Maelene Myers is the Executive Director of East Liberty Development, with Matthew Ciccone (right) and Nathan Cunningham (left)
14Redeveloped industrial bakery
15Patrick Miller from Deeplocal
While post-industrial towns such as Detroit languish in a ‘rust belt’, Pittsburgh is bucking the trend, teeing itself up as a major hi-tech hub and an alternative to California’s Silicon Valley. Monocle visits its thriving East Liberty neighbourhood.
Issue 25
From a Beijing air-quality expert to an Italian architect, these urban planning visionaries have ideas with the potential to transform our urban world – and soon.
Issue 47
While post-industrial towns such as Detroit languish in a ‘rust belt’, Pittsburgh is bucking the trend, teeing itself up as a major hi-tech hub and an alternative to California’s Silicon Valley. Monocle visits its thriving…
Issue 39
Cairo's new satellite cities, the migration from Mumbai to Bandra, and Asia's frantic competition to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Issue 63
Patagonia combines the best of natural beauty and local culture. In Puerto Varas, ambitious restoration projects are putting the town’s roots centre stage.
Issue 16
Two years after the war with Israel, another battle was raging in Lebanon among its own people. But as the bullets flew, there was still time for mojitos – the Lebanese are used to surviving crises. Our correspondent…
Issue 16
The recipe for creating the perfect community is a complex one, but one thing people everywhere are realising is that the likes of Starbucks are no longer welcome, says our editor in chief Tyler Brûlé.
Issue 60
New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative.
Issue 63
It’s twice as big in area as Tel Aviv but it has only 200,000 residents – and a reputation for being dusty and dreary. Be’er-Sheva’s mayor, however, plans to change that. But the makeover leaves little space for the local…
Issue 25
Do cities have a sell-by date? And if they no longer feel fresh and vital, should we abandon them? That’s what’s happening in Russia. So should the burghers of New Orleans and Detroit do the same?
Issue 55
New York's first bicycle sharing scheme is set to launch into action, a new escalator is improving the lives of Medellin's, Colombia, residents, and Peru invests in its solar energy sector.
Issue 5
In May, for the first time in human history, the world’s population was more urban than rural. But how can we deliver quality of life to our urban environments? Here, five leading thinkers give their answers. First, the…
Issue 45
What happens when urban planning goes wrong? The answer is Dongguan, a metropolis hastily erected on the back of a 1980s economic boom. With poor transport and half-empty shopping centres, life is a struggle. But authori…
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