Urbanism
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50 steps to improving your city
Elevating the urban environment needn’t call for grand blueprints from city planners, nor sweeping regeneration. Small projects and individual details can make a difference. Here are a few starters from our editors.
Quality of Life Survey
Our annual Quality of Life rundown – where does your city rank?
Odd squad
A city’s quirks can often beguile us more than its falling crime rate or fine trams. We list our favourite idiosyncrasies from around the world.
Tucson, USA
In the Arizona desert, Tucson has an arid climate but a bountiful creative scene – and both are drawing in eager visitors.
Building a legacy
Outgoing Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel reflects on eight years reshaping his city through bold infrastructure, a pioneering Architecture Biennial and the relentless pursuit of inclusive urban spaces.
Editor’s letter
When our editor in chief sets out for a jog around a city, his brain is whirring even faster than his legs. Here he reflects on urban projects in London and Zürich that have…
Shifting sands
From advertising to the transformations of Tokyo, Beijing and Madrid, we lift the curtain on the issues and events shaping the world, set to resonate in 2019 and beyond.
Happy space
City dwellers pine for attractive and usable public spaces and city planners are taking note. We visit places where poetic verses are daubed on streets and ‘playable pavements’ allow children to let off steam.
Moving the pieces
At Expo Real, a three-day real-estate extravaganza in Germany, investors, developers and urbanists thrash out the deals that will shape our cities in the years to come. Monocle peeks at the future of property.
