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
Olafur Eliasson and how public art changes your perspective on a city (23.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Tall Stories 481: Hengermalom, Budapest
- Treating the US nursing shortage with good design
- Tall Stories 480: Johannesburg City Library
- UN-Habitat’s call to action on housing, a Bloomberg-LSE programme for mayors and Expo Real in Munich
- Tall Stories 479: Dubai’s totemic Toyota Building
- What can cities learn from nature? Discover The Bioplanning Institute and the Bundanon Art Museum
- IPUT special: meet chief executive Niall Gaffney
- Tall Stories 478: Feira de São Cristóvão – a Nordestino feast in Rio de Janeiro
- The secrets to urban crowd control, compassionate design and the World Tramdriver Championship
- Tall Stories 477: Biidaasige Park – how Toronto combines green space and flood protection
- What we learned at the World Design Congress
- Tall Stories 476: Dulles International Airport’s Mobile Lounges, Washington
- Cape Town’s liveability secrets – highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference
- Tall Stories 475: Bethlem Royal Hospital and Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London
- Want to find utopia? Try Columbia, Maryland
- Tall Stories 474: Fuggerei, Augsburg – Germany’s 88-cent rent
- Crowdfunding community projects, personalised airport terminals and a Swiss folk festival
- Tall Stories 473: The Hope for Peace Monument, Beirut
- How good design affects a city beyond the aesthetic – from coastal resilience to safer transit
- Tall Stories 472: Al-Nawfara Coffee Shop, Damascus
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