Saturday 6 November
Imagine a city where everyone lives next to a park, where people cycle to work on safe bike routes or hop on to convenient trams if it’s raining, where the air is clean and the traffic noise is, if not absent, at least…
Yes, they can look pretty, but Diana Balmori’s landscaping projects can also change cities, make people happier and healthier and battle climate change. A pioneer of the green roofs movement, she helped build New York’s…
City parks: from Singapore’s recently revamped Bishan Park, to why San Francisco is the best in the US, The Urbanist goes green.
They may not have come top in Monocle’s chart but the cities ranked 11 to 20 are still all great places to live. They didn’t make the first 10 because some lacked a real metropolitan buzz, while others failed to deliver on…
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.
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and his highly armoured motorcade, green cities in Japan, and an interview with India's chief economic adviser.
The Green Bird team of Tokyo is an army of young people, with cool haircuts and bibs supplied by Nike. cleaning up their city. Picking up litter has never been sexier.
Houston, in oil-rich Texas, isn’t a city you might associate with progressive or green credentials. And yet its inhabitants have just re-elected Annise Parker, a liberal who has put renewable energy firmly on the agenda,…
Monocle’s favourite cities combine small-scale neighbourhoods with green spaces, but not all cities were built with the right foundations for future growth and sustainability. We champion four urban innovators who see…
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…
Tuesday 11 September
There’s a hot word in the debate about the future of our cities: density.
Friday 5 February
Spurred on by the Lebanese government’s promise to cut carbon emissions and start using renewable energy, the Danish embassy in Beirut decided to introduce some much needed green thinking to the land of Cedars.
Thursday 11 October
All around the Monocle bureau in Hong Kong there’s drilling and jackhammering going on.
Sunday 7 August
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…
Friday 30 November
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.
Sunday 15 May
This evening in New York, guests will gather for the High Line’s annual Spring Benefit — the most important fundraising effort of the year for the city’s elevated park built on a disused railway, around 10m above Manhatt…
Sunday 1 August
Land in Hong Kong is scarce – nearly 6,500 people are crammed into every square kilometre – and big business.
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