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Electric bikes are handy but why must they be used as garbage bins on wheels?
When did city dwellers decide to turn the lime bike into a garish waste disposal unit?
Hope floats
On the waters of the North Sea is Floating Office Rotterdam, an carbon-neutral structure that embodies the need to build better.
Culture: Global
Finds from the worlds of museums, publishing and K-pop, plus a popular podcast festival.
Hidden talents
Winy Maas designed the world’s first art depot that is accessible to the public. We meet the movers and shakers, engineers and experts who helped him make it happen.
Diplomacy
How the Dutch manage their waterways and a chat with Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner in charge of enlargement.
Booming business
Promising start-ups are creating a buzz in Rotterdam, where disused port sites have been redeveloped. Monocle meets the entrepreneurs seizing opportunities in this newly revitalised Dutch city.
Europe
Challenges for Turkey, a new lease of life for Rotterdam and a rising star of Italian politics.
The coast is cleared
Is your country too small? Make it bigger. Monocle reports from Singapore and the Netherlands, where nations are reclaiming record amounts of land from the sea to expand their territory and house growing populations.
