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The new generation of helpful travel agencies, an urban distiller gives his team a getaway and cycle helmets that are both sturdy and sleek.

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Business
Technology

Rock the house

Having restored the sheen to Sotheby’s rusty balance sheet, new CEO Tad Smith is reimagining the historic institution’s future by embracing digital.

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Rock the house
Urbanism

Image conscious

Vienna’s city council is doing a Google and mobile-mapping its streets. The mission? Use public space and get rid of old sweet machines.

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Image conscious
Urbanism

Cities

A tale of two disaster-ready cities, the view on participatory urbanism from Aarhus and LA’s inventive way of dealing with the hot, hot heat.

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Cities
Transport

Power up

Traditional bike sales have peaked, but electric bike sales are gaining momentum. With increasing industry innovation, it seems the market can only go in one direction: up.

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Power up
Design

Timber land

We visit the showrooms of the Hida Furniture Festival in Takayama, the seat of Japan’s woodworking industry.

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Timber land
Fashion

If the glove fits

Luxury giant Hermès is at the forefront of a movement to revive one region’s leather-work traditions.

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Thierry Thomé, director of the ganterie, stands in the Hermès leather goods workshop in Saint-Junien with artisans working at tables in the background.
Entrepreneurialism

Space race

A boom in co-working spaces is offering freelancers flexibility. But are these business incubators a timely innovation or real-estate opportunism?

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Space race
Business

The secret to opening a bike shop

In the latest episode of our 'Secret to...' series we talk to Jack Pattison, co-founder of Freddie Grubb, about the key elements that go into creating an outstanding bike shop.

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bike shop window
Business

Cross to bear

As director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Yves Daccord has learnt to take a calm approach to life-or-death decisions.

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Cross to bear

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