When one Japanese couple’s search for a roomier home led to a love of traditional living, they embraced classic local architecture, too. But they also found that, even in a cultured college town, older buildings are disa…
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is Asia’s MIT or Cambridge, and determined to be as well-known. Its innovation – and robot humanoids – proves it to be worthy of the task.
A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.
The Savannah College of Art and Design produces graduates full of inspiration and savvy – and the surrounding city feels much the same. Monocle visited for a lesson in considered development.
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.
Honolulu, our top-ranking US city for the third year running, wants to shed its honeymoon hotspot image. The film industry, renewable energy and agriculture are helping transform it into a new Pacific power.
Few will have heard of Dilijan, the so-called “Switzerland of Armenia”, but this ambitious enclave is intent on putting itself on the map. Since the Central Bank moved some of its operations from Yerevan (see issue 84 of…
Robert Bound reporting from Chiang Mai: Thailand’s unofficial second city is a beguiling collision of contrasts: a young university town with an ancient, storied history; a town of temples and boxing stadia; monks and go…
From Ulan Bator to Accra, there’s a global shortage of pilots – and schools to teach them. That’s why business has taken off at Moncton Flight College in New Brunswick, Canada. It’s home to 240 students who will one day be…
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…
Asheville has an enduring music legacy that stretches far beyond its traditional mountain music and bluegrass roots. Today it is a city with one of the most vibrant music scenes in the US and is a place where bands flock…
The Colorado towns of Boulder and Fort Collins provide the perfect breeding ground for entrepreneurs who want to tap into the great outdoors and up-and-coming trends. With the Rocky Mountains outside their offices, it’s…
Every new year needs a fresh manifesto, so while you’re kicked back, lying low, chasing the sun or even hard at it, we’ve developed a pick and mix of ideas to create your own to-do list for a happy 2009. If you’re partic…