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Urbanism

Cities

Hong Kong's West Kowloon transforms neglected reclaimed land into the world's largest cultural district, featuring 17 venues across a 23-hectare waterfront park designed by Foster + Partners.

  • Issue #146
  • 4 min read
Colourful library building facade with a grid of pastel tiles and pink door.
Music

Observation: Group therapy

The fanatical followers of Hong Kong boy band Mirror reflect the troubled city’s yearning for some homegrown positivity and pride.

  • Issue #146
  • 4 min read
Observation: Group therapy
Society

Residents elect

As members of one of Denmark’s largest housing co-operatives, the occupants of one cobbled Copenhagen thoroughfare are a community in control. We meet the neighbours in Nørrebro.

  • Issue #146
  • 1 min read
Residents elect
Culture

Sand guard

What kind of beachgoer are you? Get ready for the return of the shadebathers, bodies in fine mahogany, supercharged nubile flirters and blatant naturists at a coast near you this summer.

  • Issue #145
  • 4 min read
Sand guard
Travel and restaurants

The opener

Rev your engines and wind down the windows as we begin our whistle-stop tour of global transport with dispatches from the first cycle to the last mile. Plus: football and dogs.

  • Issue #144
  • 8 min read
The opener
Entrepreneurialism

Working principles

As the world of work reboots, opportunities for reappraising business are manifold. Six writers and CEOs address key issues, from flexible hours and physical workplaces to retaining a global outlook.

  • The Entrepreneurs #4
  • 23 min read
Illustration of two people at a counter with food and drinks, and a storefront with an X marking closed business.
Food & Drink

The opener

Our pack of far-flung correspondents weigh in with a sampling of weird and wonderful things happening across the world, from a 100-year-old Canadian landscape designer’s achievements to some mind-beagling treats for your pooch.

  • Issue #143
  • 7 min read
The opener
Affairs

After the blast

Last summer an explosion rocked Beirut. This month we asked our correspondent to return to those streets to meet the people rebuilding the Lebanese capital.

  • Issue #142
  • 11 min read
White banner hanging on weathered Beirut building reads RESIST PERSIST REBUILD with architectural illustrations

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