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Urbanism

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Cities

Toronto’s mayoral race is heating up, Zürich’s mayor tells us what her city is doing right and one of Venice’s bridges gets a revamp.

  • Issue #117
  • 4 min read
Cities
Design

São Paulo: building better cities

Brazil’s business capital has reinvented its city centre through clever urbanism. We meet the architects, gallery owners and transport visionaries powering this change.

  • Film
  • 7 min watch
Rooftop pool in the Centro.
Society

Cities Briefing

Animal welfare in Montréal, Munich reaches for the sky, tourism in Slovenia that’s the bee’s knees and Warsaw city councillor Jan Spiewak has his say.

  • Issue #116
  • 4 min read
Beekeeper in white protective suit inspecting wooden hive with colorful painted panels
Affairs

Building safer cities

Monocle Films travels to Paris to bear witness to the French capital’s efforts to mitigate terrorism through smart design and architecture.

  • Film
  • 2 min watch
Mother and son walking in a street
Affairs

Europe

Greece’s smart city, Poland’s left-wing mayor (and potential future president) and Lisbon’s street art.

  • Issue #115
  • 1 min read
Europe
Business

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.

  • Issue #115
  • 12 min read
Space race
Affairs

Big ideas

Urban transformation often begins on a local scale, as these inspiring initiatives prove

  • Issue #115
  • 11 min read
Big ideas
Affairs

Asia Pacific

Vietnam’s battle for the best city transport system, a neighbourhood makeover in Seoul and Shanghai’s riverside gets a spruce-up.

  • Issue #115
  • 4 min read
Asia Pacific

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