Edits / Travel
Leopoldstadt
A Jewish enclave a century ago, Vienna’s Karmeliterviertel – part of the larger Leopoldstadt – was down and out for much of the postwar period. But thanks to creative energy and smart city planning, the area is booming.
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Design / Urbanism
The water works
Throughout the five boroughs of New York, space is at a premium. For the city’s planners, that means making intelligent use of existing waterfronts and parks to showcase that famous skyline from a fresh perspective.
Affairs / Urbanism
Capital idea
Founded 32 years ago, Nigerian capital Abuja was a utopian dream. But it became marred by corruption and few could afford to live there. Today, as the cranes return, its new minister is attempting to forge a truly African…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 30 November
Sorting the entire city should be simple
For a profession that has such a direct impact on our daily lives, to hear an urban planner speak about our cities sometimes requires having a glossary at hand.
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Tuesday 11 September
Should cities be left to grow naturally?
There’s a hot word in the debate about the future of our cities: density.
Affairs / Business Hubs
Well oiled
Ghana is drilling for oil. Apartments are going up, the educated diaspora is returning and the government has a plan to avoid the “resource curse” seen in places such as Nigeria. In Accra the mood is optimistic and the…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 March
Destruction of the past? That’s nothing new
In London it’s easy to get enraged about an urban planning decision that appears to casually wipe away the city’s past and allow for the construction of some modern monstrosity.
Business
Los Angeles
There's a kernel of truth to the reputation of Los Angeles as a one-industry town fuelled by plastic surgery, smarmy agents and intellectual vacuity. But look past that and you'll see an increasingly sophisticated centre…
The Monocle Weekly, episode 51
For the second instalment of the Monocle Weekly from Rio de Janeiro, Tyler Brûlé talks to the city's mayor, Eduardo Paes, who gives a candid view on his plans for the future of the city.
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 26 February
A new hill-top Palestinian city faces a hump
There’s some pre-bust-Dubai-style construction happening in the heart of the West Bank. Fifteen minutes from downtown in Ramallah, tractors are cutting into a bucolic hilltop to make way for Rawabi — the first planned…
The Urbanist, episode 59
Big: from master-planning new cities, to multilane highways through the centre of town, how do cities cope with super-scale
The Monocle Daily, episode 183
Analysis of Kofi Annan’s leaked Syrian peace plan, Tommie Smith discusses his Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, and why cities go bankrupt.
Section D, episode 28
The best of Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, including Joseph Grima – editor of Domus magazine and a look at the city’s 2015 Expo plans.
The Urbanist, episode 54
Social housing: Dominic Papa of S333 architects discusses London, we look at contemporary Berlin’s housing solutions, and hear from the first planned city in Palestine.
The Urbanist, episode 25
Fantasy cities: Peter Murray tells us his vision for 2050, we hear about Beirut’s future plans, and visit a comic artist in Paris.
Affairs / Urbanism
Americas briefing
Mexico City's taxi fleet plans to go green, all change at Chattanooga, and how Twitter is helping track the spread of illness through cities.
The Globalist, episode 109
Why the US plans to build a drone base on Australian soil, the business in Tokyo and a look at how Belfast’s city centre works.
The Urbanist, episode 51
How to be an urbanist: we ask what qualifications are required to become a city planner and learn about a planning icon – Jane Jacobs.
Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Sunday 7 August
Moscow’s crazy paving
With its miles of snaking traffic jams, clouds of exhaust fumes and a creaking public transport system, Moscow is clearly a city much in need of improvement, but the government’s latest plan to beautify the place has most…