Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Monday 1 October
New builds don’t stay new for long
There is something distinctly pleasing about radiated heat that trumps ambient heat every time.
- 75 results for regeneration
Business / Business Hubs
Heartland of gold
This month in our series on emerging business hubs, we visit Kansas City, Missouri, where big companies and small start-ups are investing in America’s heartland. Meanwhile the region’s low prices are also luring in new…
Affairs / Sport
Uphill struggle
Sochi, a Black Sea beach resort popular with Putin and Siberian retirees, was the surprise choice to host the 2014 Winter Olympics – it lacks proper sewers for a start. So before it can cater for an expected one million…
Edits / Urbanism
Casuo Antiguo
The oldest city in the West, Cádiz is an unspoilt destination where you get to experience authentic Spain (ie you’ll need to learn the language). Now its historic quarter, Casco Antiguo, is undergoing a regeneration project…
Affairs / Society
Asia briefing
North Korea's election (no great surprises expected), Malaysia's big river clean-up, and mixed feelings over Tokyo's plans to spruce up the Kabukicho district
Affairs / Urbanism
Africa/Middle East Briefing
Benjamin Netanyahu's motorcade and urban regeneration in Mecca.
Design / Small Business
Do it yourself
Monocle meets five creative businesses and entrepreneurs who have gone their own way, and we ask them how, and why, they did it.
Affairs / Society
Africa/ Middle East briefing
A call for better treatment of Lebanon's army of maids and nannies, plus a transport boost in São Tomé and why Africa didn't make out 25 most liveable cities.
Business / Business Hubs
Rivals for the crown
An oil boom is driving Santos’s remarkable transformation and, as the cash flows in, the port city’s coastal cache and ambitious regeneration means it’s giving drizzly São Paulo a run for its money.
The Entrepreneurs, episode 21
The resurgence of gentleman’s barber businesses, a look at the Italian shoe-making industry, and the southeast London neighbourhood being regenerated by a new café.
Edits / Architecture
Triangle d'Or
The Moroccan city famed for its Art Deco architecture is in the middle of a huge regeneration project, making it the perfect time to invest.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 1 December
Back to the bad old days
Just a few years ago, Medellín, Colombia’s second city, was hailed as a beacon of urban regeneration in Latin America and praised for its steep drop in violent crime.
Business / Industry
Desert Dream
Once a provincial backwater, the Jordanian port town of Aqaba is in the midst of a vast regeneration programme that will reposition it as the ‘gateway to the Levant’.
Culture / Film
Monocolumn
Friday 12 August
Weekend agenda: 13/14 August
Monocle’s weekend global events guide includes a pop-up menswear shop in London, indie film Littlerock showing in New York and LA, Helsinki’s summer music festival, a tour of regeneration in New Orleans and an exhibition…
Edits / Travel
La Candelaria
Even though La Candelaria is in Bogotá’s city centre parts of it feel like a remote Andean village. With its colonial mansions, bohemian atmosphere and plans for regeneration afoot, foreign property buyers are investing in…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 8 October
Welcome to the “Russian Venice” (well, almost)
Vyshny Volochek is an ordinary Russian provincial town: tired, grey and emitting a general air of decay.
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Friday 19 February
The new market makers
From Oman to the Netherlands architects are creating markets for the 21st century as urban planners realise that they offer a retail and social model that people like (as long as the rubbish crates arrive at the end of the…
Affairs / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 1 June
Life after death for Berlin’s old airports
A year from today, the long-awaited Berlin Brandenburg International airport (BBI) will open next to the site of Berlin-Schönefeld, finally ending a long and drawn out game of airport musical chairs. The new airport will…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 5 February
How to do dictatorship
The 2011 edition of Dictatorship For Dummies will tell two cautionary tales of how, and how not, to cling to power.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 August
UK Riots Part 2: Learn to love your high street
As the London riots rolled into their third day, businesses across the capital were shutting up shop.