Affairs
Page 128
Inventory: a global round-up
Starting the new year on the right foot, we head for gentle exercise: climbing in Innsbruck, surfing in Margaret River, hiking in Vancouver and Swimming in Tel Aviv.
Well kitted out
We visit the shops that are getting us moving, from skiing to surfing – all while looking our very best in athletic wear.
Cities
We speak to Phoenix’s young and upcoming mayor and explore the (very) hot topic of pyrogeography.
Defence
The Chagos Islands, Canada’s first female sergeant major and the UAE's arms industry.
Diplomacy
The power of personal relationships in peace talks and the relationship between the US and UK.
Politics
Cyprus gets a boost from natural gas, Iran’s election and unlikely animal mascots.
Back in business
Despite the political challenges tainting its name in the West, Myanmar is making steady economic progress – thanks, partly, to new-found friends.
Building society
Colombia’s newest city, Serena del Mar, is an experiment in privately funded urbanism.
Paddle power
As developers eye New York’s Gowanus Canal, Ed Stocker takes to the water in one of the city's grubbiest but most interesting corners.
The opener
How to improve street lighting, shopfronts and city transit, a celebration of rats’ lives and dogs’ dinners and why the solution to our modern malaise is simplicity itself.
