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
Shared mobility
Electric scooters take over the cobbles in Lisbon, car-sharing app Mobility4All is putting senior citizens first and New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio calls e-bikes one of his city’s biggest dangers.
Food & the city
What’s your city’s best-kept food secret? This week we sample a tasting menu across Europe to discover how different urban areas feel about food.
France special
This week it’s all about France as be bring to air some of the stories we found while creating our special Gallic March issue of Monocle.
Elements: fire
We wrap up our four-part series on elements with a look at fires and the efforts around the world to control them.
Elements: earth
Earthquakes are one of the most unpredictable and uncontrollable natural disasters that our urban centres face. We continue our series on elements with a spotlight on Los Angeles.
Elements: air
We meet the author of new book called ‘Choked’ that takes a fresh approach to air pollution, look at super typhoons in Hong Kong and sing the praises of the creator of the humble AC unit.
Elements: water
How are our cities dealing with rising water levels? And what approaches are being used to make them more resilient?
Spring cleaning
How to keep New York’s subway clean, why Calgary is using beetroot brine to clear the streets of snow and the importance of going green. And a city icon: Rio de Janeiro’s street-sweepers.
Back on track
We head to San Francisco to hear how a city can be built on such steep topography, examine Vienna’s plans to reduce property speculation and get an architectural tour of former Yugoslav cities.
The Best of Tall Stories 2018
We kick off the year with a recap of the best Tall Stories of 2018, including a secret garden in the desert and a former government building with a mural by Pablo Picasso on its façade.
