Hannah Lucinda Smith
Urbanism
Monocle’s Quality of Life survey 2024: The 20 best places to live
Much of what defines a city’s quality of life can’t be quantified. We take a wider look to rank this year’s 20 best places to live.
Design
The Monocle Design Awards 2024
The latest edition of the Monocle Design Awards is here to celebrate the year’s most inspiring and ingenious products, models and structures as they set the standard across private and public spaces.
Travel and restaurants
Balat: A boisterous district with an undiscovered vibe
Take a stroll through its lanes perched on the Golden Horn for tea and a symphony of colour and contradiction.
Affairs
How Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are laying down tracks for the future with the BTK railway
By plane, train and automobile, we take in the shifting allegiances within the Caucasus’s former-Soviet states.
Architecture
Plunge into history at Istanbul’s Zeyrek Cinili Hamam
Visit a 16th-century hammam that has been sensitively revived for the modern age.
