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Architecture

Festival season

Model-making in Rome, South Korea’s craft revolution and why good architecture should be a universal right.

  • Issue #164
  • 8 min read
Modern residential buildings with balconies overlooking landscaped green spaces and wooden walkways
Urbanism

Ticket to ride

The pro-cycling transport commissioner who made New York a safer, nicer place is bringing her manifesto to the world.

  • Issue #159
  • 4 min read
Woman in black bucket hat and white coat standing on autumn street with fallen leaves
Affairs

Looking forwards

Predicting the future is tricky, yet past experiences and current concerns offer clues. Five thinkers explore what's next in urbanism, cultural controversies, geopolitics and more, imagining new futures based on today's world.

  • The Forecast #13
  • 23 min read
Illustration of a person with a camel in a desert facing a massive mirrored glass structure stretching across the horizon.
Affairs

Small Fortune

Life in small cities can provide the best of metropolitan life, with greater access to nature and a more relaxed pace. Our annual index surveys those that do it all and do it best.

  • The Forecast #13
  • 36 min read
Colorful residential buildings reflected in calm water along Girona's riverfront in Spain.
Affairs

Ready for the reawakening

Once a paradigm of urban turnaround, New York appears to be backsliding into crime and decay. We meet the residents determined to get their city back on track and unpack the numbers.

  • The Forecast #13
  • 18 min read
Aerial view of densely packed Manhattan skyscrapers and buildings stretching to the horizon.
Urbanism

Up in the air

Big-name architects are helping to transform Ecuador’s capital – but do its residents want the high life?

  • Issue #158
  • 12 min read
Up in the air
Urbanism

Best in town

From architects to street-lighting experts, these firms are keeping our cities liveable.

  • Issue #155
  • 11 min read
Yellow modernist kiosk with geometric design featuring a vendor inside and customer outside
Urbanism

Dreams take flight

The pilot and author on how he fulfilled his childhood ambitions and why he is fascinated by cities as well as the view from the sky.

  • Issue #155
  • 4 min read
Mark Vanhoenacker in British Airways pilot uniform adjusting his cap against a cloudy sky

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