The Urbanist
Monocle’s guide to better cities. Explore urban innovation, cutting-edge infrastructure, and compact living with insights from planners, architects, and city leaders.
Latest Episodes
Urban trading
Trade streets: connecting the city’s economy with its history, we visit some of the most distinct retail areas in London, Paris, Tokyo and Hebron.
Calling at all stations
Trains: from Tokyo’s Akihabara to London’s King’s Cross we find out why train stations are part of a city’s soul and psyche.
Urban parks
City parks: from Singapore’s recently revamped Bishan Park, to why San Francisco is the best in the US, The Urbanist goes green.
World Cities Summit tackle liveability
World Cities Summit: A special report from Singapore on the experts, urban planners and civil servants tackling the conference’s buzz word: liveability.
Olympic legacies
Olympic city legacies: Montreal’s cautionary tale, Eleanor Fawcett London’s Olympic plans and a visit to a still-flourshing 1960s Olympic village in Rome.
A city on wheels
Cycling cities: Madrid’s economic solution to expensive cars, Phnom Penh’s new wave of bike shops and we speak to the editor of Bristol’s Boneshaker magazine.
The ups and downs of gentrification
A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives, presented by Monocle’s editor, Andrew Tuck.
Governing city
City mayors: we chat with Mayor Joe Anderson of Liverpool and Greg Clark, UK minister for decentralisation, about city governance.
After the quake
Quake cities: San Francisco, Tokyo and Port-au-Prince – the Urbanist looks at how cities prepare for, recover from and remember earthquakes.
Cooling down cities
Keeping cool in the city: from London’s leafy rooftops to Madrid’s riverbanks-turned-urban beaches, to Cairo’s ancient architecture that beats present day air-con.
