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Local authority
Be it Brazil or Beirut, effective urban regeneration needs ideas from residents who understand their city’s problems and potential. Here’s a global line-up of innovative citizen initiatives.
Battle of the bulge
No menswear item is more divisive than a pair of speedos. And opinions on ‘banana hammocks’ are informed by national psyche. We reveal all.
Eastern promise
Moscow has been undergoing a massive programme of urban renewal but this scheme to make the city more liveable isn’t without its costs.
Americas
A school of cities in Toronto, São Paulo tries to do dockless bikes right and can a park in South Carolina bridge racial divides?
Africa/Middle East
Morocco injects funds into its cities’ medinas, Beirut gets some much-needed public space and Kigali’s transformation into a university town.
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.
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.
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.
It’s all to play for
We’ve put together a squad of marauding mayoral superstars willing to put in 110 per cent. Goals win games and, from improving transport to tackling racism, our team has plenty of top scorers.
