60 results for Mayor in The Monocle Minute

1 December 2016

Leaders from the world’s top metropolises are currently gathered in Mexico City for the C40 Mayors Summit – now in its 11th year – which runs until the end of Friday. With mayors from Buenos Aires to Rotterdam and Vancouver…

5 May 2016

Amsterdam is one of the most cycle-friendly cities in the world so it shouldn’t be all that surprising that the Dutch capital will soon get its own bike mayor. Cycling-advocacy group CycleSpace came up with the initiative…

21 April 2016

Problems continue for Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plans to bring the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to his city’s lakefront. The mayor has been championing the museum, which is endowed by Star Wars director George Lucas and…

26 August 2016

Water wars are not typically fought in North America but that’s exactly what’s happening in the Great Lakes region, where Canadian and US mayors are facing off over a decision allowing the Wisconsin suburb of Waukesha to…

5 September 2016

Panama City, Liverpool, Marseille, Da Nang and Kaohsiung: no, we’re not talking about an alternative cruise itinerary for jaded 21st-century travellers. These less familiar world cities share something in common besides the…

2 February 2016

Bandung is already Indonesia’s top university city and now it is aiming to up its credentials as a regional powerhouse for design too. With architects flocking to Bandung to do business, the latest move sees Iraqi-British…

25 February 2016

As campaigning for Brisbane’s mayoral election next month goes into full swing, it seems commuters will be the winners regardless of the result. Public transport is taking centre stage in the debate: current mayor Graham…

23 September 2016

Although the economy in Los Angeles has been on the up, the city is not known as a friendly spot to start a business. A mass of red tape often stands in the way of entrepreneurs but that’s where the newly launched LA Bus…

23 September 2016

This week a group of mayors, designers, urban-planners and other thinkers held court at the inaugural Six Degrees Citizen Space conference at the Art Gallery of Ontario to spark ideas on how to make the world more inclusive…

9 September 2016

Are mayors better prepared for dealing with global challenges than presidents? Perhaps. “Cities work together extremely well,” says Benjamin Barber, founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors. “They’re connected to the…

13 March 2017

Barcelona shows no sign of hitting the brakes on its efforts to curb traffic and emissions in the city. From January 2019, the Catalan capital will be banning older, more polluting vehicles – specifically cars registered…

24 October 2016

When Spain’s Constitutional Court overturned Catalonia’s bullfighting ban earlier this month on the grounds that it is part of Spain’s cultural heritage, the gulf between Madrid and Barcelona seemed at its most extreme.…

22 August 2016

Taiwan is in for a testing week as a high-level Chinese delegation arrives today for the Shanghai-Taipei forum. The annual city-level dialogue has gained significance this year as the first to be held under Tsai Ing-wen’s…

19 September 2016

A new report from Eurostat has found that London has the worst traffic congestion of all European urban areas. But just how bad is the city’s congestion? Well, it’s so dire that the average driver was found to lose about…