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With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments. Nominee in the Smartest Podcast category of the 2019 British Podcast awards. 

The Urbanist Monocle Radio

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments. Nominee in the Smartest Podcast category of the 2019 British Podcast awards. 

    Tall Stories 415: The Tempodrom, Berlin

    Tall Stories 415: The Tempodrom, Berlin

    George Ruskin takes us to a postmodern, circus-tent-like event space that has been entertaining Berliners for decades.
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    • 7 min
    Floating buildings and maritime architecture

    Floating buildings and maritime architecture

    Can floating cities be the solution to rising sea levels? Can architecture prepare in advance for coastal changes? We explore a few ways that our cities are, or should be, interacting with water. 
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    • 30 min
    Tall Stories 414: Former headquarters of Deutsche Bahn AG, Frankfurt

    Tall Stories 414: Former headquarters of Deutsche Bahn AG, Frankfurt

    Florian Siebeck visits a late-brutalist building that looms over the Frankfurt skyline to assess what’s next for this cultural monument.
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    • 4 min
    Biophilic design, London’s Olympia and transit innovation

    Biophilic design, London’s Olympia and transit innovation

    This week we visit one of the jewels in west London’s cultural crown: Olympia. Then: we head to Dublin for a look at the latest in transport technology and we browse two projects in the US that are bringing biophilic design to residents and businesses alike.
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    • 29 min
    Tall Stories 413: Astana, Kazakhstan

    Tall Stories 413: Astana, Kazakhstan

    Carla Hyenne explores Astana, the recently minted capital of Kazakhstan, to see how the move has affected the city and the country as a whole.
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    • 5 min
    Urban Land Institute Europe Conference

    Urban Land Institute Europe Conference

    As the world continues to change at a rapid pace, what is the real-estate industry doing to address the challenges posed to cities by climate change, market fluctuations and geopolitical risks? This week we’re in Milan to discover how big players in the real-estate and architecture world are adapting to the demands for a more sustainable tomorrow.
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    • 36 min

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