Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Monday 14 June
The horns and the dilemma
Football, as a spectacle, is uniquely dependent on its fans.
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Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Saturday 6 November
Europe’s greenest towns
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…
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Friday 25 November
Hong Kong taxis rank highly
With 18,000 taxis on Hong Kong’s roads, this is a city in which you’ll never have to wait more than a few minutes to find one.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 June
Favela bank – no longer an oxymoron
The entrance to the Morro do Alemão favela is typically chaotic, with bicycles, pedestrians and vehicles vying for space on a grubby street teeming with small shops, beauty salons and rickety market stalls.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Tuesday 29 May
Everyone’s in a photo frenzy
Post it. This little expression has taken on an entirely new meaning in the last couple of years.
Business / Transport
Sending out an SAS
Founded in 1925, Copenhagen Airport – or CPH – is one of the best designed and most efficient in Europe. The airport is the largest in Scandinavia and the hub for carrier SAS. Here, we look at all the companies needed to…
Affairs / Environment
Hard-task masters
This is Monocle’s homage to the city workers charged with some of the toughest tasks in the world, from the nitty gritty of slum clearance in India, to dealing with Cairo’s rubbish problem and working in Taipei’s animal…
Affairs / Society
Lords of the skies
In 2007, the Brazilian government launched a crack down on the drug gangs in Rio’s slums and thousands were killed. Now the city’s civil police have a new weapon: the ‘Huey II’ helicopter gunship. Monocle looks at the use…
Affairs / Politics
Europe Briefing
What's next for Berlin's Tegel airport, the growing problem of guns in France and windpower goes quiet in Sweden
Design / Society
Prime number
When nightclub mogul Marcos Campos wanted to create a more refined and relaxed venue, he asked architect Isay Weinfeld to help craft the perfect setting. With Numero, the pair have made an elegant lounge that is revoluti…
Affairs / Defence
Fly the flag
Despite the pressures of new technology in its own ranks and a fast-developing Chinese navy sailing into view, the ‘USS George Washington’ continues to rule the Asia-Pacific seas. Monocle climbs aboard the American aircraft…
Business / Industry
Under growth
With roads gridlocked, delivering goods in the world’s cities is a growing problem. One engineer believes the answer lies in underground Victorian-style pneumatic pipes and he has some powerful backers.
Business / Aviation
Blue-sky thinking
Viking Air, a small parts manufacturer from British Columbia, had never even thought about building aeroplanes, but when the firm acquired the licences for de Havilland’s discontinued but adored sea and bush planes, the…
Culture / Arts
Just so hot right now
Next to its glittering sister Dubai, Sharjah is often overlooked. But on the art calendar, its boundary-breaking biennial is forcing a rethink of the Arab attitudes to art and the world’s attitude to Arab art. It’s an…
Affairs / Urbanism
Five thinkers: the city
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…
Design / Entrepreneurialism
Room to improve
The global marketplace isn’t short of economic indicators but none’s a more rapid read than hotel occupancy rates. With many predicting 2010 will still be tough going, we look at the managers, designers and concepts tra…
Affairs / Soft Power
Tender is the might
Conceived of only 21 years ago, already most nations want a “soft power” strategy – a way of winning the world over without resorting to military-industrial might. Monocle has indexed the top 30 soft power nations, which…