The Urbanist
With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments. Nominee in the Smartest Podcast category of the 2019 British Podcast awards.
Latest Episode
Cape Town’s liveability secrets – highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference (11.09.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Tall Stories 475: Bethlem Royal Hospital and Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London 08.09.2025
- Want to find utopia? Try Columbia, Maryland 04.09.2025
- Tall Stories 474: Fuggerei, Augsburg – Germany’s 88-cent rent 02.09.2025
- Crowdfunding community projects, personalised airport terminals and a Swiss folk festival 28.08.2025
- Tall Stories 473: The Hope for Peace Monument, Beirut 25.08.2025
- How good design affects a city beyond the aesthetic – from coastal resilience to safer transit 21.08.2025
- Tall Stories 472: Al-Nawfara Coffee Shop, Damascus 18.08.2025
- How can the arts and culture sectors boost a city’s economy? 14.08.2025
- Tall Stories 471: Aalto Siilo – the ugliest building in Oulu 11.08.2025
- Earning the commute – how do we get city centres humming again? 07.08.2025
- Tall Stories 470: Szimpla Kert, Budapest 04.08.2025
- How citizens stay informed: why strong city journalism matters 31.07.2025
- Tall Stories 469: Tyra: the World’s Largest Dinosaur, Drumheller 28.07.2025
- Rethinking streets as third spaces in the car-dependent US 24.07.2025
- Live from the Brookfield x Monocle liveable cities celebration 22.07.2025
- Tall Stories 468: SoMA Residences, New York 21.07.2025
- Adaptive reuse, shaping cities through retail and Vienna’s climate neutrality 17.07.2025
- Tall Stories 467: Shanghai’s urban transformation 14.07.2025
- Rebuilding Ukraine, forensic architecture and the Yongsan Garrison 10.07.2025
- Tall Stories 466: Supreme Court Building, Washington 07.07.2025
