Urbanism
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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.
Europe
Greece’s smart city, Poland’s left-wing mayor (and potential future president) and Lisbon’s street art.
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.
Big ideas
Urban transformation often begins on a local scale, as these inspiring initiatives prove
Back on top
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.
