Mary Holland tells the story of one of New York’s most beloved festive traditions.

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We investigate what effect the urban environment has on city dwellers’ mental health – from high stress to increased isolation – and explore some of the ways in which cities can provide a solution to these problems.

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Gregory Scruggs takes us to one of the oldest libraries in the US to explore its fascinating role in Boston’s history.

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We explore how the age of technology is having an influence on our roads and how one country is trying to reduce its dependence on cars.

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Carla Hyenne explores some of the Danish capital's blue spaces to find out just how important they are to residents.

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We discuss the Small Cities Index from Monocle’s latest edition of ‘The Forecast’ and explore two different examples of adaptive reuse – one from Hamilton, Ontario, and another from London, UK.

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Amy Van Den Berg visits a failed project on England’s south coast to find out what the unsuccessful attraction means for the town.

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Urban density is an inevitable issue for our cities. As more and more people move into urban areas, we need to know how to do density right and make it welcoming on a human scale. We report from the annual Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat conference, which this year has the theme of ‘Humanising High Density’, and we discuss the rerelease of a book from the 1920s extolling the virtues of a busy, bustling city.

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Mandy Sinclair meets Michele-Elise Burnett to take the tour that she created for the Niagara Glen park and trail system.

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Being a young nation presents its own set of challenges but it also provides ample opportunity to innovate when thinking about the future of cities. We meet the CEO of URB, who’s dreaming up planet-friendly, utopian cityscapes, and tour Expo City Dubai to explore the site’s sustainable ambitions.

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