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Up in the air

20 October 2022

Big-name architects are helping to transform Ecuador’s capital – but do its residents want the high life?

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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 326: Quito’s skyscrapers

26 September 2022

Lucinda Elliott is in Quito to see how a new swath of skyscrapers by a collection of international ‘starchitects’ is changing the Ecuadorian capital.

Radio

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 232: Unasur Building, Quito

9 November 2020

We head to a now-vacant regional hub in Ecuador for the leftist leaders that comprised the Union of South American Nations.

Monocle Minute

A once-in-a-generation UN conference is not going to solve the myriad challenges faced by cities around the world but the UN Habitat III, which is currently taking place in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, will at least try. More…

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Up the Andes

8 December 2016

It may be near the equator but there’s nothing middling about Ecuador’s third city – hence the mountainous expat boom.

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NY Chocolate Show

19 January 2012

The Big Apple’s annual ode to chocolate is packed with punters unwrapping exotic bars of the brown stuff from around the world. The push this year – chocolate as a sophisticated and healthy option for a nation that conti…

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Monocle travel guide

15 September 2011

On Monocle’s world tour this month are a Long Island hotel that takes you back to those summer camp days, cocktails and kebabs from Israel’s finest chef and coffee couture in London.

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Banana Republic

17 March 2007

Ecuador used to be a loyal ally of the US, but now its new president Rafael Correa is cutting a very different course and even looking to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez for political guidance. Monocle travelled there to meet the…

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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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Pawn in the USA?

17 January 2008

This month we begin a new series looking at the US presidential election through the eyes of foreign correspondents. First is Venezuelan Roselena Ramírez, who heads the Washington DC bureau of TeleSUR, a Venezuelan-contr…

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Culture

24 January 2014

Books, films and music to enrich your life this month.

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Soul of the city

2 July 2020

Cities have never been so vibrant, vital and on the move. But what is the formula for a perfect neighbourhood? Here we look at some of our favourite urban projects that are transforming their cities – and offer a model for…

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Art market

17 February 2014

A Q&A with the founder of a Turin-based art organisation, plus new galleries and art sales.

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Culture

17 March 2011

A roundup of the best books, films and music.

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Small Fortune

17 November 2022

Moving somewhere compact needn’t mean closing the doors of professional or personal opportunity. Life in small cities can give you the best of metropolitan life, only with greater access to nature and a more relaxed pace…