Affairs / Urbanism
2012 forecast: urbanism
What'll happen to our cities in the coming year. Japan wil have more trees, Mumbai will have more high-rises and Portugal will get its first "smart city".
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Design / Architecture
Energinet
Danish Architects Hvidt & Mølgaard have created a state-of-the-art, energy efficient headquarters for Energinet.dk. Challenged with reducing the total energy consumption by 25-30% the architects worked with high performance…
Affairs / Urbanism
Urbanism Forecast
Cairo's new satellite cities, the migration from Mumbai to Bandra, and Asia's frantic competition to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Design / Architecture
Strelka Institute
Rachel Morarjee reports on Moscow's newest institution devoted to architecture and urbanism.
Design / Architecture
Architecture Biennale – Part 1
'People meet in architecture' is the theme of the 12th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The festival has its first female director, Kazuyo Sejima from SANAA, and Monocle heads out in force to give our take on…
Design / Architecture
Architecture Biennale – Part 2
The second of Monocle's films from the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice tackles the issue of urban development. Throughout the biennale, architects demonstrated a new responsibility in their approach to preserving and…
Affairs / Urbanism
Urban Age Conference
Istanbul, a thriving megacity at the crossroads between East and West, is at a critical moment in its long and rich history. Monocle reports from the Urban Age conference, organised by the London School of Economics and…
Affairs / Urbanism
Q & A: Alain de Bottom
In our July/August issue author Alain de Botton comments on one of the worst examples of urban development currently going up in West London. He joined editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé at Monocle's offices in London to discuss…
Design / Urbanism
James Corner – Reshaping cities
American cities don't fare well in our annual Quality of Life survey but things are beginning to change. British-born landscape architect James Corner is one of the pioneering individuals who have taken up the task of…
Affairs / Urbanism
Good in a crisis
Greece’s finances are in a dire state, and its government under pressure. The latest EU bailout package has staved off economic collapse for now, but unemployment is at a record high and many Greeks are feeling the effects…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 November
How Auckland just got interesting
Auckland used to be one of the world’s least ambitious cities.
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 March
Destruction of the past? That’s nothing new
In London it’s easy to get enraged about an urban planning decision that appears to casually wipe away the city’s past and allow for the construction of some modern monstrosity.
Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 30 April
City makeover for the Expo
Shanghai has gone green in the lead up to the opening of the World Expo today.
Affairs / Urbanism
Concrete circus
Maputo's turbulent history includes colonial rule, war and regime change. And it's a rich history told in the buildings that line the streets of Mozambique's capital.
Affairs / Urbanism
Baku to the future
Baku’s skyline is marking out the Azerbaijani capital as a city for the 21st century, with its five-star hotels and Zaha Hadid-designed arts centre, but there’s still much work to do to combat its 20th-century
Affairs / Urbanism
5 Loveable cities
These are the five cities that have made our pinboard and deserve our mention even if they did not appear in our Quality of Life index. Whether it be for the transformation they have seen over recent years, the warm and…
Business / Urbanism
Prinzessinnengarten
Urban gardening: We spend a day on the farm in deepest Berlin to find out how urban agriculture is taking root in the German capital.
Affairs / Urbanism
Town criers
What’s the future of the city? Eleven writers – urbanists, authors, academics, architects and Monocle editors – look at the battles and pleasures of metropolitan living. From the empty highways of Detroit to the sewers of…
Affairs / Urbanism
Wealth and safety
In 1974 residents started moving to AlphaVille, São Paulo’s first gated community. Today there are 300 around the city. While residents may have escaped from becoming entries in the city’s kidnap and murder statistics, they…