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
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.
New Cities Summit with Jean-Louis Missika and Anil menon
Paris’s New Cities Summit, where we meet deputy mayor of the city Jean-Louis Missika and talk with Anil Menon, head of Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities project.
Los Angeles and Toronto’s struggle with public transport
Why Los Angeles opted to buy Japanese trains to expand public transport and how Toronto is a city struggling to keep its transport edge.
Sprawling suburbia
The suburban sprawl: we talk with the mayor of Surrey, Vancouver, look at London’s Hampstead and learn how to control suburbs from Professor Stuart White.
Signs of the times
Signs of the times: a survey of how everything from billboards on skyscrapers to the dazzling advertising displays in Times Square help colour our cities.
