Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2022 i AFAR

AZZURRA COX Writer Azzurra Cox is a landscape architect who has written for such publications as Bloomberg CityLab and Places Journal. In The Future of Cities (p.26), she examines the ways metro areas around the world are evolving—many in direct response to the pandemic. “COVID exposed some serious problems with equity and access to public space,” she says. “Going forward, the hope is that cities are going to become more sustainable and locally focused.” In her latest architectural endeavor, Cox is planning the landscape design of the upcoming Wisconsin Museum of Nature and Culture, which is set to debut in 2026. Follow her on Instagram @azzucox. RENA EFFENDI Photographer Istanbul-based and Azerbaijan-born photojournalist Rena Effendi describes herself as a storyteller who works through the language of pictures. For Border Lines…

MILAN Bar Basso / With its extensive cocktail list, this institution can feel daunting. To make it easy on yourself, order an Americano—or Basso’s own invention, the Negroni Sbagliato, or “bungled Negroni.” (It was born when one of the bartenders reached for the prosecco instead of the standard gin.) Mag Café / This café, with its cozily cluttered decor, is a morning-till-late-lateat-night place. Start your day with breakfast and wind down with an early evening Aviation or Americano. Lacerba / Inspired by a magazine devoted to the Futurist movement, Lacerba feels appropriately artsy and offbeat. Surrounded by bright yellow walls and abstract artwork, try the equally quirky drinks, including the popular vodka-based Basil & Honey. FLORENCE Manifattura / Located in the Piazza di San Pancrazio, Manifattura has an art deco…

INVESTING IN THE HYPERLOCAL The benefits of the 15-minute city—where residents enjoy a range of essential services within a short walk of their homes—became more evident during the last two years, when many commutes were eliminated and daily routines took place in a tighter perimeter. With the future of in-office work still up in the air, some cities are pouring resources into specific neighborhoods. “The question is how can we reinvest into not the monumental spaces, but the daily spaces,” says Alexa Bush, a program officer at the Kresge Foundation, which expands opportunities in U.S. cities through grants and investments. In Detroit, multipurpose spaces have multiplied. Many are supported through the Motor City Match program, and most of them are minority-or women-owned. They have become neighborhood anchors as well as…

MANHATTAN’S CHINATOWN IS MY HOME CHINATOWN. FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, I snoozed my way through my own baptism at the venerable Transfiguration Church on Mott Street, where countless Chinese and other immigrant families have celebrated beginnings with showy weddings and honored endings with solemn funerals. Mine is not a religious family, so I’d say the baptism served to bless my introduction more to the neighborhood than to God. Chinatown is where my grandmother worked as a seamstress, my grandfather in a fortune cookie factory. Well into elementary school on Long Island, my brother and I wore clothes she sewed, and cookies he had folded were tucked neatly away in our lunches. Most Sundays, we’d slip into the riverine press of humanity en route to the small apartment on Madison Street that…

I USED TO THINK travel meant going to a far-off place where the sights, sounds, and smells could snap me into another version of myself. Only travel, I believed, had the power to make me more plucky and intrepid, less prejudiced and blinkered. In that hallowed space of geographical and cultural difference, my fellow travelers and I would be inducted into an exclusive club of global sophistication. The more I travel from my home in Seattle and the more I think about travel in an unequal world, the less compelling I find this narrative. Travel isn’t about how far we go physically; it’s about how far we are willing to go in our hearts, minds, and convictions. I’ve met people whose passports are peppered with stamps and yet are quite…

EVERY EVENING around 7 p.m., an apricotcolored glow spreads steadily across the Piazza San Marco, Venice’s famous central square. It emanates not so much from the setting sun as from oversize glasses filled with the orange-hued beverage known as the Aperol Spritz, which proliferate at this time of day—recognized throughout Italy as aperitivo hour. For a time, during the loneliest years of the pandemic, those orange orbs were sparse. Now they are back in force, because for the gazillions of tourists who are again flooding the city like a human version of acqua alta, Venice’s legendary high tides, aperitivo means one thing: an Aperol Spritz. The word “aperitivo” (or aperitivi in the plural) refers both to a drink and to a daily ritual that takes place from roughly 7 to…

As the last few years have proven, sustainability is mission critical to the future of our planet and the people who live here. And it matters for the future of travel, too: Opened in the last two years, the 14 new and renovated properties that make up our 2022 Stay List prioritize community-centered, socially responsible, environmentally sensitive operations. Their owners are helping to redefine hospitality in ways that benefit both guests and locals. Here are the visionary hotels changing the way we travel.—JENNIFER FLOWERS Sterrekopje SOUTH AFRICA After an international search for a regenerative farm, Dutch entrepreneur Fleur Huijskens and her wife, Nicole Boekhoorn, settled on South Africa’s Western Cape wine region. Located less than five miles from the town of Franschhoek, Sterrekopje sits on 124 acres with 17th-century farm…

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Four elaborately decorated gateways mark the entrances to Yokohama’s Chinatown, Japan’s largest, which sits just a few blocks from Tokyo Bay. Pick up some chūka (aka Japanese Chinese food) such as karaage—small pieces of meat, usually chicken, that have been deep-fried with a light, crispy batter—and peruse the area’s 250 storefronts. Don’t miss the Kanteibyo Temple, considered the spiritual center of the neighborhood. LIMA, PERU When slavery was abolished in Peru in 1854, Chinese indentured laborers were brought in to work on sugar and cotton plantations. After their contracts were completed, many ended up in the Peruvian capital and established one of the oldest Chinatowns in Latin America. Spanning merely two downtown blocks, the Barrio Chino would become the birthplace of chifa—Peruvian Chinese food—which features dishes like sopa…