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Urban planning

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Urbanism

Cities

Oslo’s governing mayor on how to green a city, a Mexican city gets a rebrand, car-sharing in Slovenia and Berlin’s rooftops are blooming.

  • Issue #119
  • 4 min read
Two men shake hands on stage while exchanging an award at the European Green Capital ceremony, with a woman applauding in the background.
Architecture

Brave new world

For decades the Belice Valley was a byword for bureaucratic bungling in the face of disaster. Now, 50 years after a devastating earthquake struck the region, the bold aesthetic legacy is finally getting attention.

  • Issue #117
  • 7 min read
Symmetrical sand-colored stone colonnade with arched openings flanking a geometric paved courtyard under pale sky
Affairs

Cities

Toronto’s mayoral race is heating up, Zürich’s mayor tells us what her city is doing right and one of Venice’s bridges gets a revamp.

  • Issue #117
  • 4 min read
Cities
Society

Cities Briefing

Animal welfare in Montréal, Munich reaches for the sky, tourism in Slovenia that’s the bee’s knees and Warsaw city councillor Jan Spiewak has his say.

  • Issue #116
  • 4 min read
Beekeeper in white protective suit inspecting wooden hive with colorful painted panels
Affairs

Big ideas

Urban transformation often begins on a local scale, as these inspiring initiatives prove

  • Issue #115
  • 11 min read
Big ideas
Affairs

Asia Pacific

Vietnam’s battle for the best city transport system, a neighbourhood makeover in Seoul and Shanghai’s riverside gets a spruce-up.

  • Issue #115
  • 4 min read
Asia Pacific
Design

Park life

City dwellers are turning to the pleasures of the natural world as an antidote to urban stress. We uncover the green shoots of renewal in Paris, Munich and Beirut.

  • Issue #115
  • 15 min read
Park life
Transport

Ask the experts

Auckland’s mayor, a Slovenian urban planner and Taiwan’s cycling maven all have one thing in common: they want to improve the way you get from A to B.

  • Issue #114
  • 6 min read
Man in dark blazer sits on a bike-sharing bicycle in an urban plaza with white neoclassical buildings in background.
Design

Sky walkers

New York’s lauded High Line is inspiring cities worldwide to get their own elevated-pathway projects off the ground. Enjoy the view.

  • Issue #114
  • 11 min read
Sky walkers

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