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Grow with the flow

1 March 2016

As the tech industry in Southeast Asia continues to boom, shared workspaces are on the rise. Start-ups in the region attracted $1.6bn (€1.47bn) worth of investment in 2015, a 43 per cent leap from 2014. A young and digit…

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Growing green

3 March 2016

Responding to the decimation of green space in his hometown of Ho Chi Minh City, architect Vo Trong Nghia is known for creating sustainable architecture with bamboo. This week Vo kicked off the 2016 Asia Pacific Architec…

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Growing strong

27 April 2023

Mexico City stayed open for business during the pandemic, pulling in a global line-up of entrepreneurs. And many have stayed on, joining the ranks of a homegrown team of aspiring business talents.

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Growing glory

17 October 2013

Reopening this month after a lengthy renovation project, the Queens Museum of Art will feature its boldest and riskiest line-up since the 1990s. Plus some table tennis tournaments.

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Growing strong

17 June 2023

Minagarten, a green retail and residential development, offers locals and visitors everything from delicious pastries to calligraphy workshops.

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Room to grow

22 October 2020

A new urban farm in Paris is boosting the city’s food supply. And it’s an idea that’s bearing fruit in cities across the world.

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Growing pains

24 February 2022

A lot can happen in 15 years, especially when there’s been a global recession, a pandemic and a complete transformation in how we communicate. In these four essays we look back at a momentous decade and a half.

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Status grow

5 November 2020

There’s still space on the high street for cultivating optimism.

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Growing gains

21 May 2020

One rewarding way to soften our cityscapes and add life to our homes is with plants. Here we offer a few fail-safe tips for growers and a call to action to let your civic pride spread beyond your four walls.

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Space to Grow

17 March 2007

Bremen has always been an independent, outward-looking city, but that didn’t help it when the port’s traditional shipbuilding trade went into decline. Now the city has reinvented itself as a hi-tech hub. With low rents, a…

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The Urbanist - Floriade – growing green cities

19 May 2022

We report from the international horticultural show that takes place in the Netherlands every 10 years. Once it wraps up, the 60-hectare site will be adapted to become a fully functioning new part of the city of Almere.

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On the up

19 June 2023

From a forward-looking emirate to coastal enclaves in Mexico and Morocco, these cities are emerging from the pandemic having made bold improvements and attracted new residents.

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Oceania

19 June 2014

Taking stock of a rebuilt Christchurch after the 2011 earthquake — and Auckland acts on housing.

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Grow your own

20 June 2013

As populations become more urban and people become more aware of where their food comes from, city farms, whether it’s beekeeping in Brisbane or vegetable growing in Havana, are coming into their own.

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Expo. 69: Growing apart

21 November 2013

Kashgar may look like just another chinese boomtown but the city is riven with ethnic tensions. monocle visits a frontier where tradition is clashing with change.

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The Urbanist - Utopian Hours: Turin’s growing momentum

20 October 2022

We wrap up our conference season at Utopian Hours festival in the north of Italy, where we get urban inspiration from seven speakers and investigate why Turin has seen a burst of creative city building in recent years.