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
What can cities learn from nature? Discover The Bioplanning Institute and the Bundanon Art Museum (02.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- IPUT special: meet chief executive Niall Gaffney 01.10.2025
- Tall Stories 478: Feira de São Cristóvão – a Nordestino feast in Rio de Janeiro 29.09.2025
- The secrets to urban crowd control, compassionate design and the World Tramdriver Championship 25.09.2025
- Tall Stories 477: Biidaasige Park – how Toronto combines green space and flood protection 22.09.2025
- What we learned at the World Design Congress 18.09.2025
- Tall Stories 476: Dulles International Airport’s Mobile Lounges, Washington 15.09.2025
- Cape Town’s liveability secrets – highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference 11.09.2025
- 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
