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Monocle on Design - Boom or bust: statues in the city
22 August 2017
Statues are important civic landmarks so what can instating and removing them say about a city and its relationship to its past? We find out how Budapest is remembering its Soviet history. Plus: we talk to curator and…
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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 261: The statue of Egerton Ryerson, Toronto
14 June 2021
Monocle’s Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewis visits one of the protest sites following the recent discovery of indigenous children’s remains at a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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The Urbanist - Urban monuments
19 April 2012
Statues and monuments: architect Peter Eisenman discusses Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and we find out why France rejected a statue of Carla Bruni.
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The Urbanist - The best of Tall Stories 2017
4 January 2018
We start the year with a look back at the best Tall Stories of 2017: from statues, to a garden gate and even cycling in a city.
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The Globalist - Thursday 31 August
31 August 2017
We assess Brussels’ unhappiness with the Brexit negotiations, discuss what Japan and the UK have in common and hear about what Romans think of the city’s public statues.
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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 350: Mother of Kartli, Tbilisi
27 March 2023
Sally Howard visits the “Mother of Georgia” statue to see what this monument to femininity says about the role of women in the post-Soviet state.
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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 293: Pero’s Bridge, Bristol
7 February 2022
Lilian Fawcett tells the tale of the bridge that served as a backdrop to the protests in 2020 that resulted in the bronze statue of Edward Colston being thrown into Bristol harbour.
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The Monocle Daily - Thursday 8 July
8 July 2021
Enrico Franceschini and Stephen Dalziel on Afghanistan’s troop withdrawal as the Taliban make gains; Lithuania wants a barrier with Belarus; and ‘Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History’ by Alex von Tunzelmann.
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The Globalist - Thursday 1 November
1 November 2018
Why has the US decided to intervene in the conflict in Yemen? Plus: the potential outcomes of Jerusalem’s mayoral race, why K-pop is coming between South Korea and Japan and how India built the world’s tallest statue.