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
Tall Stories 249: The Beirut River, Lebanon
Adib Dada explains a unique planting method that is turning a plot of land on the banks of the Beirut River into what’s now known as Beirut’s Riverless Forest.
Diary of a year in lockdown
Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck opens up his diary charting the past 12 months, as the UK marks a year since it first entered into lockdown.
Tall Stories 248: The nightclub
We look at the night-time economy’s importance to a city, and the power of a good dance floor.
The quest for perfection
We explore some of the different approaches that cities have taken in the quest for perfection.
Tall Stories 247: Gibert Jeune, Paris
A historic bookshop in Paris’s Latin Quarter is closing its doors. We bid adieu.
The urbanist dictionary
We take a look at the language of urbanism in the hopes of unravelling the jargon frequently thrown around in city discourse.
Tall Stories 246: Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper
We stop by Jasper Park Lodge, a historic hotel in the Canadian Rockies that’s hosted plenty of famous faces.
‘Grands projets’
We look at ‘grands projets’ in cities around the world, from turning the Champs-Élysées into a giant urban garden to a reimagining of the Los Angeles river and a new community in Canada.
Tall Stories 245: Reykjavík’s Ironclads
What form do the buildings in the world’s northernmost capital take? And what is behind their distinctive look?
Hopes for 2021
We ask a collection of city-makers, thinkers and doers to describe their hopes for urban life this year.
