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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
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.
Urban innovation
Innovation: the frontrunners in urban design cities on the rise, we go to Istanbul, Eindhoven, Tel Aviv, and Munich.
Social housing
Social housing: Dominic Papa of S333 architects discusses London, we look at contemporary Berlin’s housing solutions and hear from the first planned city in Palestine.
Berlin’s Auguststrasse
Auguststrasse: The Urbanist visits Berlin to explore just one 900-metre stretch which is a microcosm of the city’s history.
Cities on holiday
Holiday cities: Jeremy Hildreth discusses city-branding, we learn of Copenhagen’s tourism problem and discuss the legacy of Delhi’s B&Bs built for the Commonwealth Games.
How to be an urbanist
How to be an urbanist: we ask what qualifications are required to become a city planner and learn about a planning icon – Jane Jacobs.
