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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.

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★	31 Mar 2025 6 min	Tall Stories 452: Rideau Canal Skateway, Ottawa Paul Logothetis takes us to the world’s longest natural skating rink.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
702	27 Mar 2025 27 min	Live from Ned’s Club in London Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, is joined on stage by Muyiwa Oki, the president of RIBA, alongside our executive producer, Carlota Rebelo, and design editor, Nic Monisse, to explore how thoughtful architecture, visionary developers and pioneering city-makers can redefine our cities.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	24 Mar 2025 6 min	Tall Stories 451: Sun Valley Resort ski lift, Idaho Gregory Scruggs explains the story of an unlikely invention that changed the fortunes of ski towns worldwide.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
701	20 Mar 2025 32 min	Can San Francisco turn its downtown around? We report from San Francisco as Monocle’s Christopher Lord speaks with some of the key players and devotees of the city’s downtown – an area that has most keenly felt the effects of the post-pandemic lull. The city’s mayor, as well as property developers and local business people, weigh in on the direction of travel they see for this gold-rush city known for its boom-and-bust nature.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	17 Mar 2025 6 min	Tall Stories 450: The Warburg Institute, London Sarah Grice explores the history and current day offerings of the Warburg Institute Library.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
700	13 Mar 2025 37 min	Mipim 2025: meet the mayors We are on the ground in Cannes for the global urban festival Mipim, where we speak with mayors from around the world who are looking to stoke interest in their cities.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	10 Mar 2025 6 min	Tall Stories 449: Circo Voador, Rio de Janeiro Tomas Pinheiro tells us how concert venue Circo Voador became so intertwined with Brazilian music that it was named an intangible cultural heritage site.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
699	6 Mar 2025 30 min	The Round megadevelopment in London and air pollution in Bangkok We explore The Round, a new almost 93,000 sq m landmark development in London, to hear how developers are putting community at its core. Plus: we’re in Bangkok to discover how the city is tackling its suffocating air pollution.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	3 Mar 2025 7 min	Tall Stories 448: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas Camille Rodríguez Montilla takes us to Universidad Central de Venezuela to see why it means so much to its students, alumni and the city as a whole.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
698	27 Feb 2025 30 min	Revisiting, reviewing and restoring the city We look back at snapshots of our cities as we speak to the man behind Milan’s Bosco Verticale a decade on from construction, revisit a collection of essays 14 years after they were written while strolling the streets of Toronto and see how the refurbishment of a traditional house in Old Delhi is giving a view into the city’s past.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	24 Feb 2025 5 min	Tall Stories 447: Kennedy Park, Lima Elna Schutz takes us to a park in Lima best known for its large number of well-cared-for resident cats.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
697	20 Feb 2025 29 min	Digital democracy and the new Riyadh Metro We explore how going digital can contribute to a thriving city democracy and improve other things such as climate resilience and urban loneliness. The CEO of digital community-engagement platform Go Vocal describes its benefit for communities, the developer behind Europe’s most digitally connected neighbourhood tells us how they did it and we stop by the new Riyadh Metro.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	17 Feb 2025 8 min	Tall Stories 446: Villa Rezek, Vienna Alexei Korolyov tells us about the refurbishment of one of Vienna’s most important modernist buildings.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
696	13 Feb 2025 30 min	Developing London We take a look at three developments in the UK capital that will be worth a visit in the months to come. From a revitalised piece of industrial history to a colourful waterside park in a grey business district and the big tenants pitching up beside Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	10 Feb 2025 6 min	Tall Stories 445: Maha Kumbh Mela, Prayagraj Geetanjali Krishna takes us to a temporary city on the banks of the Ganges river to investigate a large example of temporary urbanism brought about by a Hindu pilgrimage.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Urbanist

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Tall Stories 452: Rideau Canal Skateway, Ottawa

Live from Ned’s Club in London

Tall Stories 451: Sun Valley Resort ski lift, Idaho

Can San Francisco turn its downtown around?

Tall Stories 450: The Warburg Institute, London

Mipim 2025: meet the mayors

Tall Stories 449: Circo Voador, Rio de Janeiro

The Round megadevelopment in London and air pollution in Bangkok

Tall Stories 448: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas

Revisiting, reviewing and restoring the city

Tall Stories 447: Kennedy Park, Lima

Digital democracy and the new Riyadh Metro

Tall Stories 446: Villa Rezek, Vienna

Developing London

Tall Stories 445: Maha Kumbh Mela, Prayagraj