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Technology

Elevated living

Swiss elevator giant Schindler and its rivals navigate the complex engineering behind moving millions of urbanites skyward daily, as cities grow taller and pandemic concerns reshape vertical transportation.

  • Issue #144
  • 10 min read
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Business

Cities Briefing

We sit down with the woman who could be Copenhagen’s next mayor and explore a park project in Busan.

  • Issue #144
  • 4 min read
Cities Briefing
Transport

Missing links

As the world gets moving once again, we highlight the grand-scale transit projects that would give cities and nations new momentum.

  • Issue #144
  • 13 min read
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Travel and restaurants

The opener

Rev your engines and wind down the windows as we begin our whistle-stop tour of global transport with dispatches from the first cycle to the last mile. Plus: football and dogs.

  • Issue #144
  • 8 min read
The opener
Affairs

Cities

Japan’s mixed-generation living experiment finds success; Lucerne’s train station goes underground; a Tel Aviv-based start-up helps US city leaders hear what residents are saying.

  • Issue #142
  • 5 min read
Cities
Design

Concrete jungles

As urbanites the world over seek to nurture a little nature in their cities, we travel to Singapore, Copenhagen and Beirut to visit three projects with rewilding at their heart.

  • Issue #141
  • 1 min read
Concrete jungles
Society

Change for good

Big improvements can often come from small adjustments to our behaviour. So how can we ensure that we do things better? We asked 20 thinkers for their take.

  • Issue #141
  • 21 min read
Change for good
Affairs

Cities

Los Angeles transforms its river, Helsinki goes deep for its heating and Prague’s tram lines go green.

  • Issue #141
  • 1 min read
Cities
Affairs

Civic pride

Maverick mayors and plucky planners are springing into action to make their cities greener and cleaner – and prepare them for the big bounce back.

  • Issue #141
  • 14 min read
Civic pride
Affairs

Time to hit play

Fifty silver linings, smart ideas and canny case studies to help cities, businesses and individuals press play on 2021 — after a year of stubborn, frustrating pauses.

  • Issue #140
  • 2 min read
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