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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.

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Urban ideas and inventions to improve the places we call home. We hear about Sitopia Farm in London, learn about wellbeing with ‘Know Your Health’ and look at accessibility innovation with Kone and Leo-Pekka Tähti.

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★	21 Jun 2021 4 min	Tall Stories 262: Central Harbourfront Event Space, Hong Kong: James Chambers goes for a stroll along a prime piece of Hong Kong real estate that’s due to be sold.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
505	17 Jun 2021 30 min	Urban ideas: Urban ideas and inventions to improve the places we call home. We hear about Sitopia Farm in London, learn about wellbeing with ‘Know Your Health’ and look at accessibility innovation with Kone and Leo-Pekka Tähti.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	14 Jun 2021 8 min	Tall Stories 261: The statue of Egerton Ryerson, Toronto: Monocle’s Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewis visits one of the protest sites following the recent discovery of indigenous children’s remains at a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
504	10 Jun 2021 30 min	London’s Low Line: We’re out and about as we explore an urban trail woven along the Victorian rail arches in London’s Bankside area.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	7 Jun 2021 6 min	Tall Stories 260: Montevideo’s plazas: Monocle’s Lucinda Elliott observes how plazas in the Uruguayan capital weave together the city’s communities.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
503	3 Jun 2021 30 min	Transport special: We celebrate the June transport special of Monocle magazine with a look at a few innovations and oddities from the world of mobility.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	31 May 2021 10 min	Tall Stories 259: London’s rats: Monocle’s Alexis Self joins the battle between resident and rat, to investigate why these pests are currently prospering.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
502	27 May 2021 30 min	Biennale Architettura 2021: ‘The Urbanist’ is on the road again, as we report from the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	24 May 2021 4 min	Tall Stories 258: Pirelli 39, Milan: Monocle’s Ed Stocker assesses the high hopes for a regenerated skyscraper currently in progress in Milan.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
501	20 May 2021 30 min	Repopulating the city centre: We take stock of more than a year’s worth of temporary urbanism, behavioural data and “new-normal” thinking in our cities to find out the best ways to bring life back to the centre.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	17 May 2021 5 min	Tall Stories 257: Vienna’s amusement parks: Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov investigates the enduring appeal of Vienna’s amusement parks – and the likelihood that they’ll last through the pandemic.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
500	13 May 2021 30 min	Episode 500: In a special extended programme celebrating 500 episodes of ‘The Urbanist’, we reverse the roles and make Andrew Tuck the guest for a change. Join us as we take a sonic trip down memory lane and even bring you a blooper or two.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	10 May 2021 4 min	Tall Stories 256: Millennium Bridge, London: On one of the many bridges across the Thames in London, Andrew Tuck pauses to ponder the best vantage points from which to see a city.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
499	6 May 2021 30 min	The power of the mayor: With local elections in the UK this week and a mayoral race in New York later this year, we look at the role of local government and how it can actively change the lives of citizens for the better.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	3 May 2021 4 min	Tall Stories 255: M+ Museum, Hong Kong: Monocle’s Nina Milhaud visits a newly constructed museum space in Hong Kong that aspires to express Asia’s rich visual culture.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Urbanist

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Tall Stories 262: Central Harbourfront Event Space, Hong Kong:

Urban ideas:

Tall Stories 261: The statue of Egerton Ryerson, Toronto:

London’s Low Line:

Tall Stories 260: Montevideo’s plazas:

Transport special:

Tall Stories 259: London’s rats:

Biennale Architettura 2021:

Tall Stories 258: Pirelli 39, Milan:

Repopulating the city centre:

Tall Stories 257: Vienna’s amusement parks:

Episode 500:

Tall Stories 256: Millennium Bridge, London:

The power of the mayor:

Tall Stories 255: M+ Museum, Hong Kong:

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