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
River crossing
Bridges are meant to make our cities better connected but sometimes they highlight existing divides. We explore two very different examples in Lisbon and Budapest. Plus: a special report exploring the outskirts of London.
Tall Stories 68: Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
Following the news that Montreal’s Olympic Stadium is to be transformed into a welcome centre for asylum seekers, our Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewis tells the story of one of the city’s most famed structures.
Urban Resilience Summit
Highlights and insights from this year’s Urban Resilience Summit by the 100 Resilient Cities network, which assembled more than 500 urban leaders, practitioners and city activists in New York.
Tall Stories 67: the Alberta Legislature
This government building that sits just across the river downtown is a postcard for the city. Monocle’s Sheena Rossiter takes us on a trip to learn the history behind the iconic building and what it means to her as a native Edmontonian.
Faith
On this week’s episode we look at how religion has shaped our cities: be it how communities gather, influencing popular culture or impacting the levels of pollution.
Tall Stories 66: Santa Maria dello Spasimo
Construction of this church began in 1509 – and is yet to be completed. The structure is still missing a roof but that’s not necessarily a bad thing: come night-time it is an architectural feature that makes it all the more fascinating.
Participatory urbanism
Join us! A city can only evolve in the right way when citizens and communities are engaged in how changes should take place.
Tall Stories 65: Moscow’s fluff
Moscow has been hit by such unseasonable weather this summer that people won’t be surprised if it starts snowing tomorrow. But amid all this chaos there’s one thing that’s reassuringly consistent: poplar fluff.
Gardens, integration and pollution
Making a concrete jungle greener in Brazil, using a new library to promote integration in Toronto and how a bike can suck in air pollution and pump out clean air.
Tall Stories 64: Cycling through Amsterdam
We take to the road and explore the joys of cycling in Amsterdam.
