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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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★	20 Jan 2025 5 min	Tall Stories 442: 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa Tomos Lewis ponders a potential spring clean of Canada’s official prime ministerial residence.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
692	16 Jan 2025 30 min	Materials matter How can the materials with which we choose to build affect the economics, sustainability and resilience of our built environment? We explore the material world through a recent title about available resources, an explainer on using soil for structures and a visit to the world’s leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	13 Jan 2025 7 min	Tall Stories 441: Shuri Castle, Okinawa Tomás Pinheiro describes the recent renovation of one of Okinawa’s Unesco World Heritage Sites after a devastating fire in 2019, as well as the history of reconstructions that this castle has undergone.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
691	9 Jan 2025 28 min	Destinations for 2025 We visit two destinations that should factor into your 2025 travel plans. In Portugal we assess the hospitality sector after a record year in visitor numbers, then we tune in to the sounds of Tokyo to hear what sonic attractions await you in the Japanese capital.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	6 Jan 2025 7 min	Tall Stories 440: Motel Plitvice, Zagreb Guy de Launey reviews an icon of Yugoslav architecture in a motorway service station just outside Zagreb.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
690	2 Jan 2025 28 min	The best of ‘Tall Stories’ in 2024 Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, rounds up his favourite episodes of ‘Tall Stories’ from 2024.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
689	26 Dec 2024 30 min	The best of 2024 Monocle’s editor-in-chief Andrew Tuck recalls some of his favourite interviews and reports from the year on ‘The Urbanist’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
688	19 Dec 2024 27 min	A very Urbanist Christmas Our holiday special brings you a collection of yuletide traditions from cities around the world. Then, we roll out another festive round of ‘The Urbanist’ quiz and give you the perfect gift idea for the urbanist in your life.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	16 Dec 2024 8 min	Tall Stories 439: Deer Valley Resort, Utah Jessica Bridger straps on her skis and takes us to a grand American resort whose wild, man-made landscape stuns visitors.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
687	12 Dec 2024 29 min	Swimmable cities, Battersea Power Station and indigenous retail Matt Sykes, co-founder and convenor of Swimmable Cities, describes how our urban centres can band together to promote more swimmable urban waterways. Then Sebastien Ricard from Wilkinsoneyre unpacks the transformation of the Battersea Power Station and Mandy Sinclair visits Aaniin – Canada’s first fully indigenous-owned department store.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	9 Dec 2024 5 min	Tall Stories 438: Cusco’s duality Elna Schutz explores how antiquity and modernity coexist in the city of Cusco, perched high in the Andes.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
686	5 Dec 2024 28 min	How municipal architects shape our cities From the perspectives of towns, cities and countries, we look at the role of the municipal architect today to see how this centralised advisor can help to cut red tape, mould an identity and connect stakeholders for better urban-design choices.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	2 Dec 2024 6 min	Tall Stories 437: Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, New York Paul Logothetis takes us to an intriguing new building that is just as awe inspiring as the exhibits housed within.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
685	28 Nov 2024 29 min	‘The Land is Full’, plus urbanism for young and old We speak to Thomas Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, whose new monograph, ‘The Land is Full’, explains why all land comes with deep history and cultural ties. Then we inspire young urbanists with the author of an architecturally themed colouring book and assess how Singapore will combat loneliness in its rapidly ageing population.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	25 Nov 2024 9 min	Tall Stories 436: Tallinna Linnahall David Plaisant visits a Soviet-era concert hall that has been disused for the best part of 15 years and is loved and loathed by the city’s residents in equal measure.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Urbanist

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Tall Stories 442: 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa

Materials matter

Tall Stories 441: Shuri Castle, Okinawa

Destinations for 2025

Tall Stories 440: Motel Plitvice, Zagreb

The best of ‘Tall Stories’ in 2024

The best of 2024

A very Urbanist Christmas

Tall Stories 439: Deer Valley Resort, Utah

Swimmable cities, Battersea Power Station and indigenous retail

Tall Stories 438: Cusco’s duality

How municipal architects shape our cities

Tall Stories 437: Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, New York

‘The Land is Full’, plus urbanism for young and old

Tall Stories 436: Tallinna Linnahall