metropolitans

Metropolitans zooms in on a given city, taking a look at tourism, the economy, energy issues and much more.

Rotterdam, city of festivals

The city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands is Europe’s largest port, strategically located at the mouth of the Rhine and the Maas…
19/06 17:12 CET
Skopje: the future is in the past

It’s the monument in front of which everyone wants to have their photo taken: Skopje’s largest statue features Alexander the…
22/04 19:38 CET
Poznan’s Euro 2012 social legacy

Poznan rises early. The city of just over half a million has with Warsaw the lowest unemployment rate in Poland and getting to work on time…
22/10/12 16:19 CET
Lodz: The Water Paradox

The city of Łódź in the middle of Poland is something of a paradox. Unlike many other major cities, it did not spring up around a major…
22/06/12 10:12 CET
Lorca’s sustainable reconstruction

Last May in Lorca, in the Spanish region of Murcia, a double earthquake left nine people dead and 300 injured, out of a population of…
21/03/12 12:43 CET
The sustainable spirit of Dunkirk

Dunkirk, an industrial port in northern France, is reshaping its urban centre to cement the city firmly in the 21st century. They are trying…
21/02/12 17:21 CET
Malmö shows off its green regeneration

Malmö, Scandinavia’s bridge to Europe, is Sweden’s third largest city with 300,000 inhabitants. About a third of them are…
26/01/12 17:08 CET
Kazakhs invest in new Astana

Thirteen years since the rebirth of Astana, in Kazakhstan, the administrative capital is also becoming a regional business and cultural…
04/07/11 12:24 CET