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Inner North Portland

17 January 2009

Long overshadowed by Seattle and San Francisco, Oregon’s largest city has achieved its own renown for an outdoors lifestyle, environmental emphasis and clichéd-but-real mania for coffee, beer, food and wine. North Portland…

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The upper trust

19 June 2014

Founded on the ideas of people, planet and profit, Ecotrust has supported civic progress and regeneration in Portland and beyond for more than 20 years. Monocle meets the man behind the mission: Spencer Beebe.

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Home run

21 September 2017

Sliding US sales meant a rethink for Adidas; its global creative director reveals how the brand stepped up.

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Stepping up

15 September 2022

From his new office at Nike’s HQ, the design chief of the world’s leading sports brand reveals its plans for the future of products that bear the famous swoosh.

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Retail Survey: Division Street, Portland, Oregon

14 October 2016

Division Street in Portland, Oregon has witnessed a model retail renaissance. Monocle Films meets the shopkeepers on this once sleepy stretch, which is now the centre of the city’s budding new retail scene.

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The Menu - Portland's food-and-drink scene

25 July 2014

Portland special: We meet the people who make up the food-and-drink scene in Oregon’s most populous city, including Camas Davis, founder of Portland Meat Collective, the recent James Beard Award winner Naomi Pomeroy of…

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Americas

17 September 2014

On the South America election trail, exploring Canada's oil sands and Oregon's modern-day milkmen.

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Politics

18 May 2017

The Oregon governor who's the antithesis of Donald Trump, a ne'er-do-well election line-up in Liberia and overdue renovations at Vienna's Hofburg Palace.

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John Jay

10 September 2015

For creative mastermind John Jay, a restaurant should focus on ambience as much as food.

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The Concierge - Milan, Finnair and Portland’s Specialty Coffee Expo

31 May 2023

This week, Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins us from Milan to give us his top recommendations following Salone del Mobile and Petri Burtsoff speaks to the CEO of Finnair, Topi Manner, who is preparing for his…

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Business

17 February 2015

The indigo-dye farmers of Shikoku Island and how Italian racing bicycles are leading the breakaway.

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Cities

17 August 2017

The mayor of St Tropez is on a mission to reshape it, what smaller Chinese cities can offer young residents and taking a river dip in Portland, Oregon.

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Dished up

21 October 2015

We spread the news about a Parisian bakery that combines a contemporary interior with traditional pastries and a café in Istanbul that hopes to turn the city’s tea-drinkers onto coffee. In England, of course, the time…

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Business

19 November 2015

A Japanese packaging company re-energising an ancient tradition, an innovative medical clinic in Portland, Oregon, and a Q&A with an F&B entrepreneur from Jakarta.

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The Menu - Ten restaurants that changed the US

21 October 2016

Author Paul Freedman lists the American restaurants that have had the biggest impact on the country, patissier Pierre Hermé explains how much you can do with chocolate and we visit a groundbreaking wine business in Portland…

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Diplomacy

20 October 2016

James Baumgartner, Canada’s man in Portland, on building business ties.