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
UN-Habitat’s call to action on housing, a Bloomberg-LSE programme for mayors and Expo Real in Munich (09.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Tall Stories 479: Dubai’s totemic Toyota Building 06.10.2025
- What can cities learn from nature? Discover The Bioplanning Institute and the Bundanon Art Museum 02.10.2025
- 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
