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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
Metropolitan neighbours
Urban neighbours: the Chilean mayor re-housing dogs, an Australian whose garage sale have gone global and the San Francisco restaurateur who created a food park.
Urban rivers
Rivers: Tom Bolton guides us down London’s lost waterways and we learn about plans to turn part of New York’s East River into a resort.
Gangsters, prison and crime
Crime and the city: the Chicago prison in a skyscraper, how Oslo street lighting prevents crime and a look at New York gangsters of old.
Reviving small business
How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit and Richard Florida on how to fix a city.
Skyscrapers: the new and the old
Skyscrapers: This week’s show is all about tall buildings, from icons of hope to crumbling remains of empires in decline.
Tackling public transport
How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit and Richard Florida on how to fix a city.
Shopping groceries with ice hockey
We learn about an ice hockey stadium turned into a grocery store, ask how London cabs could be greener and visit Zürich’s Freitag Tower.
Improving education
Looking at education, we visit Vancouver where public salons are improving speech, stopping via Shanghai, we also attend the Bartlett School of Planning in London.
Shaping cities
Monocle editor Andrew Tuck asks how diasporas shape our cities, visiting Manhattan’s Little Italy and talking to Sao Paulo’s Japanese residents.
Building from scratch
We explore what it takes to make a city from scratch. From new hubs around airports, to a hundred-year-old factory town sucked into a megacity.
