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Latest Episodes
What can cities learn from nature? Discover The Bioplanning Institute and the Bundanon Art Museum
We meet Dror Benshetrit, founder of The Bioplanning Institute, who’s reframing urbanism through an ecological design lens. Plus: how the Bundanon Art Museum in Australia teaches cities to better interact with the natural world.
IPUT special: meet chief executive Niall Gaffney
Join us for a special episode in partnership with IPUT, Dublin’s leading property-investment company. We meet chief executive Niall Gaffney to talk about building community and setting new benchmarks for cities in Ireland.
Tall Stories 478: Feira de São Cristóvão – a Nordestino feast in Rio de Janeiro
Tomás Pinheiro takes us to a space in Rio de Janeiro that brings together all the best offerings from Brazil’s northeastern region and is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year.
The secrets to urban crowd control, compassionate design and the World Tramdriver Championship
We find out how cities move crowds safely and efficiently, investigate how design can affect health and wellbeing, and stop by the World Tramdriver Championship in Vienna.
Tall Stories 477: Biidaasige Park – how Toronto combines green space and flood protection
Mandy Sinclair takes us to Toronto to explore the largest new park opening in a generation, which helps to prevent flooding and provide green space for residents and visitors.
What we learned at the World Design Congress
As the World Design Congress ponders a response to climate change, we meet one of the world’s best architects and an indigenous design expert. Plus: we visit Seattle’s new Waterfront Park.
Tall Stories 476: Dulles International Airport’s Mobile Lounges, Washington
Gregory Scruggs unpacks a heritage feature of Dulles International Airport in Washington that to this day gives the terminal a unique charm.
Cape Town’s liveability secrets – highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference
What are Cape Town’s secrets to liveability, how do you act like a local in Barcelona and why is the UAE the best place to bring people together?
Tall Stories 475: Bethlem Royal Hospital and Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London
Monocle’s Sophie Monaghan-Coombs tells us the story of the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, founded in the 13th century in London.
Want to find utopia? Try Columbia, Maryland
We visit one of the US’s more successful attempts at a utopian society, as well as a mass-timber tower in Portland and the winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
