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.
Tall Stories 268: Ljubljana Mosque
Guy De Launey brings us the story of a mosque in Slovenia that was more than 50 years in the making.
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?
Tall Stories 267: Danube-Auen National Park, Vienna
We visit one of the finest remaining low wetlands in Europe, of which a large chunk sits within Vienna’s borders.
The ideological city
We investigate the impact that past and present political ideologies have on the way our urban areas look and function.
Tall Stories 266: Hong Kong General Post Office
Monocle’s Nina Milhaud discusses building preservation in Hong Kong with architectural historian Charles Lai, as they look at a classic piece of civic architecture that is due for demolition.
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?
Tall Stories 265: The Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley
Monocle’s Emma Nelson visits the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society to see how it’s monitoring trees to tackle climate change.
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’.
Tall Stories 264: Little Island, New York
Monocle’s Henry Rees-Sheridan takes a closer look at the forces behind New York’s newest park.
