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 145: Vienna’s ground-floor gas stations
There’s little room in Vienna for stand-alone service stations so petrol pumps had to be put into the ground floors of buildings. But many of these small and quirky stations are now disappearing.
France special
This week it’s all about France as be bring to air some of the stories we found while creating our special Gallic March issue of Monocle.
Tall Stories 144: Helsinki’s City Theatre
We head to Finland to discover the history of one the country’s modernist icons.
Elements: fire
We wrap up our four-part series on elements with a look at fires and the efforts around the world to control them.
Tall Stories 143: Copacabana Palace
The Copacabana Palace is an icon of Brazilian glamour and sophistication – and Rio de Janeiro’s art-deco masterpiece holds the same charm today as it did when it opened its doors in 1923. So dress up and delve into the history of the hotel with Monocle 24’s very own Brazilian,…
Elements: earth
Earthquakes are one of the most unpredictable and uncontrollable natural disasters that our urban centres face. We continue our series on elements with a spotlight on Los Angeles.
Tall Stories 142: Hundertwasserhaus
This week we head to Vienna to hear the story of the odd – but architecturally interesting – Hundertwasserhaus.
Elements: air
We meet the author of new book called ‘Choked’ that takes a fresh approach to air pollution, look at super typhoons in Hong Kong and sing the praises of the creator of the humble AC unit.
Tall Stories 141: The Braille Institute of America
Monocle’s Tomos Lewis takes us on a tour of this brutalist complex designed by the architects Arthur Yohannan and Sergio Miranda.
Elements: water
How are our cities dealing with rising water levels? And what approaches are being used to make them more resilient?
