Urbanism
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A cable-car service has been brought back to life in Sarajevo. We hitch a ride in a city on the up.
Asia Pacific
Vietnam’s battle for the best city transport system, a neighbourhood makeover in Seoul and Shanghai’s riverside gets a spruce-up.
Against the grain
The betc founder has never read a management book. Yet his trusting approach has built an ad giant that's rewriting the business rulebook and the book on Paris’s future too.
Quality of Life Survey: Metropolis now
You want a city that’s well run, delivers on life’s essentials and is fun too? This is our ranking of the top 25 in the world.
Local authority
Be it Brazil or Beirut, effective urban regeneration needs ideas from residents who understand their city’s problems and potential. Here’s a global line-up of innovative citizen initiatives.
It’s all to play for
We’ve put together a squad of marauding mayoral superstars willing to put in 110 per cent. Goals win games and, from improving transport to tackling racism, our team has plenty of top scorers.
Park life
City dwellers are turning to the pleasures of the natural world as an antidote to urban stress. We uncover the green shoots of renewal in Paris, Munich and Beirut.
Eastern promise
Moscow has been undergoing a massive programme of urban renewal but this scheme to make the city more liveable isn’t without its costs.
Making waves
Venice’s emergency services – from police on patrol to doctors on call – all rely on one thing: a very fast boat.
Architecture
We help Sydney improve the quality of after-life, meet the Vietnamese designers looking to the past for new solutions and venture into the dapper new showroom of an Italian design giant.
