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Do cities have a sell-by date? If they no longer feel fresh, should we abandon them? It’s happening in Russia. Perhaps the burghers of New Orleans and Detroit should do the same.
Asia
Why English-style village shops are popping up in rural China and how the hutongs of Beijing may be given a reprieve. Plus, the latest figures on who is living the longest.
Europe
Stockholm starts doing it for the kids, Helsinki talks rubbish, and Turkey stops smoking.
Paradise regained
Born from socialist ideals, the appeal of the kibbutzim has faded over the years. To survive, they’ve become profit-making cooperatives, attracting Israelis back with a higher standard of living.
Karachi cops
Monocle spends a day with Karachi’s police chief as he worries about kit, corruption and crime stats as the Taliban gains ground in Pakistan. We also meet Afghanistan's presidential hopeful.
Coming home
Spain is offering citizenship to the descendants of those who fled its Civil War and the Franco regime. Should other nations with ageing populations do more to encourage their diaspora to return home?
Americas
The Obama's grand designs on their private White House living quarters, going Dutch in the Antilles, planting seeds of change in Detroit and the Interoceanic Highway near completion - maybe.
Oceania
Samoa mounts operation healthcare and the truth about those fit Aussies - they are actually too busy on twitter to play sport.
Field trip
Some smaller initiatives have gone beneath the radar. In Japan, a scheme to encourage jobless young citizens to move from town to work the land could be a global template for rural living.
