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Urbanism

Cities

Hong Kong's West Kowloon transforms neglected reclaimed land into the world's largest cultural district, featuring 17 venues across a 23-hectare waterfront park designed by Foster + Partners.

  • Issue #146
  • 4 min read
Colourful library building facade with a grid of pastel tiles and pink door.
Quality of Life

The Monocle Quality of Life survey 2021

We've tweaked our annual urban Quality of Life Survey to consider the cities best placed to prosper post-pandemic. Here’s how metropolises from Vancouver to Vienna are faring as the world’s most liveable locations.

  • Issue #145
  • 33 min read
The Monocle Quality of Life survey 2021
Travel and restaurants

Kerb your appetite

A pair of inventive Helsinki restaurateurs have transformed three long-overlooked city kiosks into hospitable hubs of singular street-food. We join the queue.

  • Issue #145
  • 3 min read
Customers queue at Kiosque, a Helsinki kiosk serving French café classics, with staff taking orders through the window.
Architecture

Eat and greet

A protected Zürich building has a new lease of life as a Japanese restaurant. Ooki Pavilion’s owners are helping to transform a quieter corner of the city with good food and great design.

  • Issue #145
  • 6 min read
Eat and greet
Affairs

Advance party

After a year of pause, Monocle’s writers look ahead. Here’s how politics, urban planning, commuting and climate change policy can move on in ways that will benefit us all.

  • Issue #145
  • 29 min read
Advance party
Affairs

Open days

In need of an urban pick-me-up? Boosting quality of life in cities doesn’t always require large-scale intervention. These projects are improving the way their cities look, act and feel.

  • Issue #145
  • 6 min read
Open days
Affairs

The opener

From game-changers to green capitals and suspect statues, we round up some eye-catching news from across the globe.

  • Issue #145
  • 8 min read
Orange Treno Gottardo train crosses a bridge over a river through a forested Alpine valley in Switzerland.
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
Urbanism

Growth area

Few things determine the success of a start-up as much as location, which dictates its reach and, importantly, access to talent. Take Munich, where new technology firms are partnering with top universities.

  • The Entrepreneurs #4
  • 5 min read
Growth area

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