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Europe
Greece’s smart city, Poland’s left-wing mayor (and potential future president) and Lisbon’s street art.
Space race
We rarely notice street furniture, yet the design of chairs, bins and bike racks has a profound effect on our cities. We meet the designers enhancing our urban mood and surroundings.
Big ideas
Urban transformation often begins on a local scale, as these inspiring initiatives prove
Fresh air
Millions of listeners tune into France's competitive early-morning radio shows. We hear how top stations are battling for attention and setting the nation’s agenda for the day.
Back on top
A cable-car service has been brought back to life in Sarajevo. We hitch a ride in a city on the up.
Asia Pacific
Vietnam’s battle for the best city transport system, a neighbourhood makeover in Seoul and Shanghai’s riverside gets a spruce-up.
Against the grain
The betc founder has never read a management book. Yet his trusting approach has built an ad giant that's rewriting the business rulebook and the book on Paris’s future too.
Quality of Life Survey: Metropolis now
You want a city that’s well run, delivers on life’s essentials and is fun too? This is our ranking of the top 25 in the world.
Pump action
Proving ballet isn’t just for the young, a troupe of Auckland women in their sixties and beyond is dancing to keep fit and happy.
Full steam ahead
Finland’s ambassador to Poland can take the heat, whether relaxing in her sauna or building relations with regional leaders.
