Business / Automotive
Detroit Motor Show 2011
Monocle reports from Detroit on why many were feeling upbeat about "Made in the USA" at this year's autoshow.
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Business / Entrepreneurialism
Retooling Motor City
For decades Detroit has been a poster child of the misfiring American dream but amid block after block of post-industrial decline there are signs that Motor City is jump-starting its economy. Years of under investment have…
Affairs / Politics
Let's look at plan B
Struggling nations and cities need to hitch up their skirts, quicken their step and just get on with it. Our editor-in-chief follows up the debates stirred up in this issue.
Affairs / Politics
Americas briefing
The Obama's grand designs on their private White House living quarters, going Dutch in the Antilles, planting seeds of change in Detroit and the Interoceanic Highway near completion - maybe.
Affairs / Urbanism
Briefing Americas
The ups and downs of the Caribbean, plus life on the farm in downtown Detroit.
The Urbanist, episode 46
Detroit: a special on the once-thriving city that’s reinventing itself as a cultural, entrepreneurial and urban-farming hub. Plus, a chat with Detroit mayor Dave Bing.
The Curator, episode 46
Robert Bound selects an opera with a difference in Birmingham, a chat with Detroit’s mayor, and a sandcastle competition as his weekly favourites.
The Monocle Daily, episode 52
Tyler Brûlé updates us from Toronto. Plus, we visit the Hong Kong Toys and Games Fair and the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Edits / Retail
THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: Part Five
For this week’s briefings, Monocle heads to Beirut and Berlin with a stop in Detroit. A film from the Monocle television series on Bloomberg.
The Review, episode 31
Chat with booksellers in Lisbon, Wellington and Detroit, we talk African music with Afri-Kokoa's AJ Kwame, and magazines come from curator and writer Kit Hammonds.
The Urbanist, episode 16
How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit, and Richard Florida on how to fix a city.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 31 August
Weekend agenda, 1/2 September
Highlights this weekend include a David Bowie film retrospective in London, a San Francisco design exhibit, ceramics in Copenhagen, music from Detroit and dining out on hot dogs and champagne
The Urbanist, episode 18
How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit, and Richard Florida on how to fix a city.
Affairs / Urbanism
Town criers
What’s the future of the city? Eleven writers – urbanists, authors, academics, architects and Monocle editors – look at the battles and pleasures of metropolitan living. From the empty highways of Detroit to the sewers of…
Business / Urbanism
Second life
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…
Affairs / Urbanism
Please turn off the lights
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?
The Monocle Daily, episode 357
We see how Pakistan views Pervez Musharraf after his return from exile, learn why an ex-Detroit mayor is being charged with racketeering, and meet papal scholar George Weigel in Rome.
The Globalist: Asia, episode 31
Shashank Joshi explores the prospects for Nawaz Sharif’s first term as re-elected leader of Pakistan, Diane Brady of Bloomberg Businessweek assesses the impact of Chinese carmakers in Detroit, and US editor for The Indep…
Business / Automotive
New York Auto Show
The New York Auto Show doesn’t quite attract the media attention of the season-opener in Detroit, but for consumers it’s by far the bigger event. Monocle looks at the role of the regional auto show in car manufacturer’s…
Edits / Business Hubs
Expo 20: All at sea
Yhe south koreans have become the globe’s most successful shipbuilders – the country is home to the three biggest shipyards in the world, all based around the port of busan. that’s great when the global economy is in full…