Urbanism
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Expo: Best-kept secret
Spread across a picturesque peninsula, Athens offers its residents a choice of beaches to enjoy away from the daily city grind. The views aren’t too shabby either, offering a perfect local escape.
Urban growth
Urban spaces are becoming wilder thanks to innovative greening schemes. We visit projects from Bangkok to Geneva, where private initiatives are creating public parks and improving quality of life for all.
Public realm
Residents and visitors to South Tyrol’s Puster Valley are reaping the rewards of an inspired approach to public architecture, from sleek fire stations and light-filled libraries to smart-looking bus shelters.
Urban growth: Solitair tree nursery
Cities are often seen as the flipside of nature: synthetic, sleek and sometimes impersonal. For places that pine after being greener, the Solitair tree nursery provides a blueprint. Monocle travelled to the nursery in…
Most liveable city: Tokyo
Marking the biggest shake-up in the survey’s nine-year history, Monocle’s 2015 Quality of Life survey awards Tokyo the number one city to call home. Rising from second place in 2014, the Japanese capital’s defining…
After the revolution
Once a hotbed of political foment, Mexico City’s Juárez district has declined for decades. Now young professionals are changing the neighbourhood, drawn to its central location and solid housing stock.
Motional issue
In this edition we consider the systems and logistical threads that allow us to make those all-important connections, whether at the airport, the railway station or in the art gallery.
Out of the past
Historically isolated, Kanazawa’s economy is expanding thanks to a new rail link to Tokyo. But its inhabitants are determined to preserve the city’s unique traditions and distinctive architecture.
Observation
Vienna's balmy morning rush hour reveals how careful urban planning, elegant cyclists and unhurried pedestrians can coexist—proof that mobility need not mean aggression, and cities can breathe.
Crude health
The meteoric growth of tar-sands boomtown Fort McMurray has slowed but it might be just the break this unbalanced town needs.
