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Urbanism

How to Live in the City

Billions of people live in cities but how many of us actually live in our city? Hugo Macdonald, author of the book How to Live in the City, takes us to New York, Tokyo…

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A panoramic shot of New York.
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Vatican foreign policy

Like many sovereign states, the Holy See pursues an active foreign policy. We visit the Vatican's foreign ministry, where world peace is always on the agenda. To find out more about the Vatican’s foreign…

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Pope Francis sitting at a table.
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Porto Revival

Monocle films visits Porto to discover how one city leader is determined to stop gentrification destroying his city.

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Tiled wall in the streets of Porto.
Business

Urban growth: Solitair tree nursery

Cities are often seen as the flipside of nature: synthetic, sleek and sometimes impersonal. For places that pine after being greener, the Solitair tree nursery provides a blueprint. Monocle travelled to the nursery in…

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A tree nursery.
Affairs

Most liveable city: Tokyo

Marking the biggest shake-up in the survey’s nine-year history, Monocle’s 2015 Quality of Life survey awards Tokyo the number one city to call home. Rising from second place in 2014, the Japanese capital’s defining…

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People relaxing on a beach in Tokyo.
Affairs

State of the news

Burma's national broadcaster, MRTV, was once a government mouthpiece. As the country slowly turns to democracy, Monocle films goes behind the scenes to see if it can change with the times.

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Presenters in a TV studio in Burma.
Affairs

High-risk hotels

In a war zone, even the hotels are targets. Monocle visits three high-risk hotels, including the Corinthia in Tripoli where nine people were killed in an attack last year.

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A hotel in a war-torn country.
Affairs

Safe and sound?

The UN Security Council is the iconic roundtable heart of diplomacy that decides when to act on some of the globe’s most pressing issues. But is the historic body still fit for purpose? We…

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A microphone with a logo of the United Nations.
Affairs

Quality of Life Cities

Monocle takes a cinematic look at the top cities in our 2014 Quality of Life Survey. We spotlight Copenhagen at number one, Tokyo as our top Asian city and Vancouver leading the way in…

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A house overlooking the river.

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