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
Festive special
The Urbanist team jumps feet first down the chimney and into the holiday season with a look at how our cities change at this time of year.
Tall Stories 388: Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, New York
Mary Holland tells the story of one of New York’s most beloved festive traditions.
Urban mental health
We investigate what effect the urban environment has on city dwellers’ mental health – from high stress to increased isolation – and explore some of the ways in which cities can provide a solution to these problems.
Tall Stories 387: Boston Athenaeum
Gregory Scruggs takes us to one of the oldest libraries in the US to explore its fascinating role in Boston’s history.
Driving change
We explore how the age of technology is having an influence on our roads and how one country is trying to reduce its dependence on cars.
Tall Stories 386: Sandkaj Harbour bath, Copenhagen
Carla Hyenne explores some of the Danish capital’s blue spaces to find out just how important they are to residents.
Small Cities Index
We discuss the Small Cities Index from Monocle’s latest edition of ‘The Forecast’ and explore two different examples of adaptive reuse – one from Hamilton, Ontario, and another from London, UK.
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.
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…
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.
