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Snow houses

17 March 2009

Since 2007, the Colombian government has made over €50m from the sale of property confiscated from busted drug barons. And there are currently an estimated 1,200 buildings waiting to be sold. Plus a large collection of…

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Towering above it

20 March 2014

In the centre of Bogotá stands late Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona’s striking Park Towers – a 1970s residential development that blends harmoniously with its mountainous surroundings and serves as a unique public space…

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Paper back

17 August 2008

Colombian newspaper ‘El Espectador’ has survived financial woes, falling sales and a drugs cartel vendetta. Monocle meets its director as part of our series on firms keeping high-quality print publishing alive in an incr…

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Let’s talk

15 August 2013

When it comes to peace treaties, where there’s a will there’s a Norway. The peace and reconciliation unit in Oslo is involved in 20 such projects around the world – and one of the most prominent has brought the Colombian…

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Enrique Peñalosa

17 June 2008

Enrique Peñalosa transformed Bogotá during his three terms as mayor of the Colombian capital and today is one of the world’s leading urban consultants. For lunch he chooses a local Italian restaurant with a South American…

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La Candelaria

18 March 2010

Even though La Candelaria is in Bogotá’s city centre parts of it feel like a remote Andean village. With its colonial mansions, bohemian atmosphere and plans for regeneration afoot, foreign property buyers are investing in…

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Expo: Neighbourhoods

22 June 2016

Three busy cities that wouldn’t be the same without serene pockets of peace and quiet.

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Americas

17 May 2011

We examine Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's image makeover, report on Qatar's investment in the US property market and bring you the view from Bogotá.

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Standing ovation

24 January 2014

From film commissioning in Finland to top TV shows in Australia, we offer a round of applause to some select scenes, firms and fairs upping the cultural ante.

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Americas

17 October 2007

The rise of the left in Bogotá, Obama stirs up controversy over Cuba, and rebuilding a Chilean icon.

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Americas

20 June 2019

Housing in Boston gets dense, Bogotá transport takes to the skies and a book reconsiders the suburbs.

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Home runs

12 June 2015

Whether it’s the hospitable feel of Madrid’s Conde Duque, the combination of old and new in Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek or the architectural assortment of Chapinero Alto in Bogotá, the opportunities presented by these three…

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Ideas to steal

17 June 2011

Making the word’s busiest cities a little more ordered should be top of most urban planners to-do lists. And when one city strikes on an idea that works, it seems the rest of the globe is keen to catch up.

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Cities

19 November 2019

Finding quality of life in Japan, Bogotá gets a metro and a suburb of Vancouver finally has a city centre.

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Monocle on Design - Reading design

10 January 2012

The role of books in design takes us to a library in Vancouver and we meet the former mayor of Bogotá, whose libraries became famous.

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The Monocle Daily, episode 98

14 March 2012

Tyler Brûlé finds out if tourism is increasing in Bogota and we debate whether it’s better to start a business than go to university.