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Quality of Life

Living for the city

Great cities adapt and change like their residents. Finding a favourite is a global undertaking that renews our love of urban centres. Here are Monocle’s top 25.

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Zurich - top liveable city
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Americas

The view from the campaign trail, the sartorial style of Uruguay's president, plus Brazilian coffee, Chilean traffic and Canadian education.

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Illustration of political candidates displayed across various digital and traditional media devices.
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Q&A Antonio Patriota

Monocle sits down with Brazil’s foreign minister Antonio Patriota in London to ask what he’s doing to take his country’s brand beyond its image of sun and soccer.

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Antonio Patriota
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Mapping progress

As the world changes, so do our top 25 cities. A tour of the globe’s urban hotspots and cultural corners helps fill in the picture.

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Mapping progress
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Asia

Protecting Yangon's architecture, tackling illegal mining in Goa, and understanding seismic activity in Taiwan.

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Yangon skyline showing colonial and modern architecture with golden pagoda at center.
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Europe

Vladimir Putin's motorcade, a revamp of Paris's Place de la République, and elections in Lithuania.

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David Cameron and Vladimir Putin shake hands in formal black and white photograph.
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Talk it out

In a quiet Lisbon palace, a tiny, underfunded body of eight Portuguese-speaking nations nurtures outsized ambitions — from shared visas to pensions across continents.

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The 'gold room', which hosts ministerial meetings
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Executive exodus

As Portugal faces economic ruin, thousands of its nationals are heading to skills-starved Angola for lucrative jobs. But while it boosts the former colony’s economy, will everyone there benefit?

  • Issue #57
  • 9 min read
The new coastal highway

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