Hannah Lucinda Smith has the latest on Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Chris Cermak rounds up US news and the Monocle team weighs in on elections in Colombia and Brazil. Plus: the Bilbao effect, a proposed smart linear city in Saudi Arabia and Henry Rees-Sheridan’s weekly Letter from New York.

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