• • • MONOCLE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS • • •

Cover art for
A

Affairs / Podcast

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.

RSS Feed
449

Latest episode

Letters from the city:

How a city handles a pandemic reveals much about its character. As urban centres around the world begin to reopen, Monocle’s correspondents send us letters from their own outposts.

Play most recent
View in schedule

Latest episodes

EpisodeDateDescriptionDownloadPlay
★25 May 2020
4 min

Tall Stories 208: Ta Prosfygika, Athens: 

Venetia Rainey takes us to visit an apartment complex in Athens that still displays many scars from its eventful past.

DownloadPlay
44921 May 2020
30 min

Letters from the city: 

How a city handles a pandemic reveals much about its character. As urban centres around the world begin to reopen, Monocle’s correspondents send us letters from their own outposts.

DownloadPlay
★18 May 2020
4 min

Tall Stories 207: Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City: 

James Chambers brings us the story of a building complex in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City that forms a symbol of relations between Vietnam and Germany.

DownloadPlay
44814 May 2020
30 min

Coronavirus and mobility: 

The pandemic has reshaped the way that we move around our cities. Public transport usage is at an all-time low, cycling is on the rise and pedestrians have been reclaiming the streets and pavements. Could this be an opportunity for actual change in the places we live?

DownloadPlay
★11 May 2020
8 min

Tall Stories 206: The Internet of Nature: 

Nadinè Galle tells us about her work on the ‘Internet of Nature’ and how much we can learn from the biological networks that exist in our cities.

DownloadPlay
4477 May 2020
30 min

Our relationship with food: 

We are joined by author Carolyn Steel to assess how we interact with food and what we might do after the pandemic to improve our relationship with what we eat.

DownloadPlay
★4 May 2020
3 min

Tall Stories 205: The corner shop: 

Monocle’s Nic Monisse takes us on a stroll to his neighbourhood corner shop to pick up some milk, eggs – and a little bit of gossip.

DownloadPlay
44630 Apr 2020
30 min

The public realm: 

As some countries start to relax restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, we assess how our view of the public realm has changed – and how it might look in the future.

DownloadPlay
★27 Apr 2020
5 min

Tall Stories 204: The balcony: 

Chiara Rimella laments the absence of a house feature that’s common in her native Italy but sadly missing from many of the UK’s architectural plans.

DownloadPlay
44523 Apr 2020
30 min

Big interview: Jan Gehl: 

Andrew Tuck brings you a special interview with Jan Gehl, perhaps the world’s best-known urban designer. Now 83, he’s waiting this pandemic out while isolating at home, enjoying spring from his garden. Sometimes all you need to steady your outlook is someone with a longer vision than yourself.

DownloadPlay
★20 Apr 2020
5 min

Tall Stories 203: Argumento, Rio de Janeiro: 

Our Latin America correspondent Lucinda Elliott takes us to a bookshop in Ipanema that just celebrated its 40th birthday and remains an important hub for Rio’s book-loving residents.

DownloadPlay
44416 Apr 2020
30 min

New normal: 

As cities rapidly adapt to the new realities of coronavirus, we continue to unpack the impact of those changes on urban living.

DownloadPlay
★13 Apr 2020
8 min

Tall Stories 202: Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna: 

We take a look behind the fanciful façades of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace and chat with one of its residents to see what it’s like to live like an emperor.

DownloadPlay
4439 Apr 2020
30 min

In praise of our cities: 

We ask our housebound editors and correspondents across the globe to reflect on what they cherish about the places in which they live and to pen a love letter to their cities.

DownloadPlay
★6 Apr 2020
4 min

Tall Stories 201: Plattenbauten, Berlin: 

We assess the unmissable Plattenbauten, a quick-to-construct building style that took off in Berlin after the Second World War.

DownloadPlay

/

sign in to monocle

Forgotten password?

new to monocle?

Print magazine subscriptions start from £55.

Subscribe now

Phone

+44 (0) 20 7725 4349
(view hours)

Email

customerservice@monocle.com

Frequently asked questions

Terms and conditions

Loading...

/

15

15

Live
Schedule

00:0001:00

  • The Atlantic Shift

/

Sign in to your account

Forgotten password?

/

Change your currency