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
Inspiring the future
London: Andrew Tuck sits down with City of London planner Peter Rees and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, to discuss how the past inspires the future of design in London.
2012 highlights
Best of 2012: Building cities from scratch to squatted-in skyscrapers, street-sweepers and a series of our favourite Tall Stories, it’s the best the city had to offer in 2012.
Winter’s breath of life
Winter: how even today, Christmas is breathing new life into Bethlehem, why we need skating rinks in cities and we speak to city lighting expert Mark Major.
Urban meeting places
Meeting places: you can’t just keep to yourself in cities, so The Urbanist explores the parks, plazas, squares and stations that serve as places to meet in our cities.
Urban lifestyle
The way we live: Toronto’s Modernist legacy, we look at micro-apartments and find out why certain cities are dedicated to the outdoor life.
London Conference 2012
We hear from Richard Florida, Amanda Burden and Richard Rogers at this year’s London Conference 2012, plus an interview with New York landscape architect Diana Balmori.
Supersizing cities
Big: from master-planning new cities, to multilane highways through the centre of town, how do cities cope with super-scale
Awkward architecture
Small: we visit vPPR of London – specialists in awkward architecture and find out how to create valuable property from seemingly random spaces.
Twilight cities
Cities after dark: we escape the heat – night shopping in Bangkok, learn Madrid’s late-night business successes and enjoy the view from Toronto’s CN Tower.
Media cities
Media cities: we visit Fleet Street to learn about London’s newspaper glory days, meet Matt Galloway of CBC in Toronto and learn Berlin’s favourite magazine.
