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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
Metropolis monstrosities
Monster mash: in this episode we look at urban monstrosities – what to do with unfinished and unsightly projects, from viaducts in Vancouver to Berlin’s bungled Brandenburg airport.
Blank space
Emptiness: can blank spaces be good for our cities? In Germany we visit a resort town in the off-season and check out one of Madrid’s main plazas – the emptied Edificio España.
City scientists
Science: we turn our noses up at planners and mayors and ask what neuroscientists, psychologists and ecologists have to say about our cities
Finding a city’s musical note
Music: A project asking musicians to seek inspiration in cities, why Vienna is ready for a musical rebrand and do city-centre festivals make good neighbours?
The urbanist dictionary
Word games: what’s in an urbanist’s dictionary and how does language affect how we see our cities? From branding slogans to the word on the street, we look into the identity of the places…
Cabbie culture
Taxi ranking: niche companies, turf wars and obsessions from the front seat. We explore cabbie culture from restaurant recommendations to why you can’t beat the Knowledge.
The guide to living in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: why the city is becoming a creative hub and how to live among the world’s largest collection of skyscrapers.
The deal with sharing
Share deal: a special episode looking at car sharing, office sharing, table sharing and mingling in cities around the world.
Sex in the city
Sex: it’s always on the agenda. From red-light districts becoming design hubs and drag queens going mainstream to how to manage São Paulo’s love motels, we tour the world looking at cities between two…
Cars and cities
Cars: Whether it’s daytime deliveries for your business or late-night taxis home after the last metro has run, there’s a place in our cities for cars. In this episode we talk Moscow traffic jams,…
