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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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Amy Van Den Berg visits a failed project on England’s south coast to find out what the unsuccessful attraction means for the town.

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★	27 Nov 2023 5 min	Tall Stories 385: Boscombe Surf Reef, Bournemouth Amy Van Den Berg visits a failed project on England’s south coast to find out what the unsuccessful attraction means for the town.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
632	23 Nov 2023 29 min	Destigmatising density Urban density is an inevitable issue for our cities. As more and more people move into urban areas, we need to know how to do density right and make it welcoming on a human scale. We report from the annual Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat conference, which this year has the theme of ‘Humanising High Density’, and we discuss the rerelease of a book from the 1920s extolling the virtues of a busy, bustling city.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	20 Nov 2023 7 min	Tall Stories 384: Niagara Glen Mandy Sinclair meets Michele-Elise Burnett to take the tour that she created for the Niagara Glen park and trail system.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
631	16 Nov 2023 30 min	Urbanism in the UAE Being a young nation presents its own set of challenges but it also provides ample opportunity to innovate when thinking about the future of cities. We meet the CEO of URB, who’s dreaming up planet-friendly, utopian cityscapes, and tour Expo City Dubai to explore the site’s sustainable ambitions.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	13 Nov 2023 6 min	Tall Stories 383: Singapore Turf Club Lilian Fawcett looks at how Singapore’s only racecourse is being redeveloped to create space for more homes in this densely populated city state.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
630	9 Nov 2023 27 min	Active cities How can urban environments encourage city dwellers to be more active? From urban design to office architecture, we investigate some of the key players making an effort to keep people moving.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	6 Nov 2023 7 min	Tall Stories 382: Memorial Park, Houston Laura Kramer takes us to one of the largest urban parks in the US to see how regeneration efforts are helping to bring the ecosystem back to life.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
629	2 Nov 2023 29 min	Community development through hip-hop We discuss how hip-hop has improved cities around the world, explore plans for a new coastal-redevelopment megaproject in Athens and find out how to mitigate the effects of floods in our urban environments.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	30 Oct 2023 9 min	Tall Stories 381: Haunted Venice Sarah Grice talks us through the dark side of history in Italy’s “floating city”.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
628	26 Oct 2023 30 min	Utopian Hours 2023 Monocle’s Carlota Rebelo reports from the Utopian Hours urbanism festival in Turin. We hear how a “disobedient picnic” ignited change in Brussels, tour the Royal Green Walk, talk about reclaiming the streets from cars and how timber can help build more sustainable cities.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	23 Oct 2023 7 min	Tall Stories 380: Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland Paul Logothetis takes a ferry to Fogo Island to explore how a remote inn is attracting tourists and supporting the local economy.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
627	19 Oct 2023 29 min	Urban Transformation Summit Monocle’s Carlota Rebelo reports from the World Economic Forum’s Urban Transformation Summit in Detroit. We hear about a new innovation district in Milan, Boston’s 24-hour city ambitions and the master plan for AlUla in Saudi Arabia. Plus: creating pocket forests and mobility in San Diego.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	16 Oct 2023 6 min	Tall Stories 379: Zürich Airport Jessica Bridger touches down at Zürich Airport and extols the virtues of a good Swiss welcome.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
626	12 Oct 2023 36 min	Saint-Gobain’s Benoit Bazin We sit down with Saint-Gobain’s CEO, Benoit Bazin, to hear about his journey, passion for enhancing quality of life in our cities and how sustainability lives at the heart of everything the company does.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play
★	9 Oct 2023 6 min	Tall Stories 378: South Brooklyn Ferry, New York Christopher Cermak tells us about his favourite way to commute on work trips in New York and how the city has expanded its offering of commuter ferries.	Download Share X (formerly Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn Email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Urbanist

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Tall Stories 385: Boscombe Surf Reef, Bournemouth

Destigmatising density

Tall Stories 384: Niagara Glen

Urbanism in the UAE

Tall Stories 383: Singapore Turf Club

Active cities

Tall Stories 382: Memorial Park, Houston

Community development through hip-hop

Tall Stories 381: Haunted Venice

Utopian Hours 2023

Tall Stories 380: Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland

Urban Transformation Summit

Tall Stories 379: Zürich Airport

Saint-Gobain’s Benoit Bazin

Tall Stories 378: South Brooklyn Ferry, New York