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
Reading the city
Bookshops are anchors in our communities, where we can go to get away to far-flung places without leaving our own neighbourhoods.
School’s out
How does inner-city school design affect the way children learn and grow, and how should school blueprints change in the future?
The ideological city
We investigate the impact that past and present political ideologies have on the way our urban areas look and function.
The summer of play
How can we design our streets to encourage play and give young people back the summer that was lost to the global pandemic?
Designing safer cities for women
How to make better and safer public spaces for women and girls around the world. With Imogen Clark, co-founder of Make Space for Girls, and Leslie Kern, author of ‘Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World’.
Bays, beaches and riverbanks
We take to the water to see how cities are developing some of their most sought-after pieces of coastal property.
Subtle specialities
We dig below the surface to explore some lesser-known city specialities.
Urban ideas
Urban ideas and inventions to improve the places we call home. We hear about Sitopia Farm in London, learn about wellbeing with ‘Know Your Health’ and look at accessibility innovation with Kone and Leo-Pekka Tähti.
London’s Low Line
We’re out and about as we explore an urban trail woven along the Victorian rail arches in London’s Bankside area.
Transport special
We celebrate the June transport special of Monocle magazine with a look at a few innovations and oddities from the world of mobility.
