Urbanism
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Healthy cities: vim and vigour
Across the world governments and developers are waking up to the fact that healthier cities are happier ones. We touch down in three very different destinations to admire some of the best urban design…
Property Prospectus: Uzupis
Monocle Films heads to Vilnius to explore Uzupis. This creative and quirky corner of the Lithuanian capital is more than just a neighbourhood – it’s a mini-state.
Baťa: if the shoe fits
The Czech town of Zlín was transformed by a visionary shoemaker who wanted to house his workers in a garden city. We put our best foot forward to explore his functionalist masterpiece.
Night mayors
We pull up a bar stool in Amsterdam at the inaugural Night Mayor Summit to hear from pioneering night watchmen and urban provocateurs in cities around the world.
Porto Revival
Monocle films visits Porto to discover how one city leader is determined to stop gentrification destroying his city.
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…
Medellín Revival
Smart new architecture and public transport infrastructure have turned Medellín into a success story. Monocle's video journalist Gabriel Leigh meets the people charting its course.
Concrete circus
Maputo's turbulent history includes colonial rule, war and regime change. And it's a rich history told in the buildings that line the streets of Mozambique's capital.
