They might not be slick or smart, they might be a bit dusty in the corners or a nightmare to navigate, and they won't be making our top 25 most liveable cities list any time soon. But who cares? One thing they are not, is boring. This is our list of this year's five most loveable cities.

From Vienna to Sydney, Vancouver to Kyoto, our correspondents survey the streets and crunch the numbers to create our special global city ranking.

In 2013, Copenhagen was the number one city in Monocle's annual Quality of Life Survey – Gabriel Leigh filmed this report last year.

Now, in 2014, Copenhagen has once again been crowned the winning city. To watch Monocle's 2014 Quality of Life film, [click here](http://monocle.com/film/affairs/quality-of-life-cities/)

This June saw the second annual New Cities Summit, this year held in São Paulo. From mayors to tech entrepreneurs, city-lovers gathered in Brazil’s business capital to take on some of our greatest urban challenges. Monocle was there to broadcast live from the Summit at the Oca Pavilion at Ibirapuera Park.

Hail a cab from a Tokyo taxi firm whose white-gloved drivers arrive with immaculate manners, spotless cars, and carrying real pride in their work.

With a nod to the past and a wink to the future, Monocle takes a look at the world of perfume and the new generation of expert alchemists.

Our foreign editor, Steve Bloomfield, and photographer Sebastian Meyer visit Sulaymaniyah, the cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan to meet the artists, journalists and musicians putting the city on the map.

Taipei has long lived in the shadow of its glitzier neighbours when it comes to retail. But now the range and quality of products on offer are firming up the Taiwanese capital’s place on Asia’s shopping map.

We head to Hollywood to shoot the world's most celebrated photographic art fair, this year taking place for the first time at Paramount Pictures Studios in LA.

With the city’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics in full swing, the fabric of Istanbul is shaping up. We meet the cultural and commercial players flexing their muscles.