Kimberly Bradley visits the iconic roadside statues of the lumberjack Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox to ponder what these oversized attractions, and others like them, mean to tourists today.

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Bookshops are anchors in our communities, where we can go to get away to far-flung places without leaving our own neighbourhoods.

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Guy De Launey brings us the story of a mosque in Slovenia that was more than 50 years in the making.

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How does inner-city school design affect the way children learn and grow, and how should school blueprints change in the future?

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We visit one of the finest remaining low wetlands in Europe, of which a large chunk sits within Vienna’s borders.

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We investigate the impact that past and present political ideologies have on the way our urban areas look and function.

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Monocle’s Nina Milhaud discusses building preservation in Hong Kong with architectural historian Charles Lai, as they look at a classic piece of civic architecture that is due for demolition.

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How can we design our streets to encourage play and give young people back the summer that was lost to the global pandemic?

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Monocle’s Emma Nelson visits the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society to see how it’s monitoring trees to tackle climate change.

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How to make better and safer public spaces for women and girls around the world. With Imogen Clark, co-founder of Make Space for Girls, and Leslie Kern, author of ‘Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World’.

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