The Urbanist

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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.

2D AGO

Mipim 2025: meet the mayors

We are on the ground in Cannes for the global urban festival Mipim, where we speak with mayors from around the world who are looking to stoke interest in their cities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

38 min
5D AGO

Tall Stories 449: Circo Voador, Rio de Janeiro

Tomas Pinheiro tells us how concert venue Circo Voador became so intertwined with Brazilian music that it was named an intangible cultural heritage site. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 min
MAR 6

The Round megadevelopment in London and air pollution in Bangkok

We explore The Round, a new almost 93,000 sq m landmark development in London, to hear how developers are putting community at its core. Plus: we’re in Bangkok to discover how the city is tackling its suffocating air pollution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

31 min
MAR 3

Tall Stories 448: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas

Camille Rodríguez Montilla takes us to Universidad Central de Venezuela to see why it means so much to its students, alumni and the city as a whole. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 min
FEB 27

Revisiting, reviewing and restoring the city

We look back at snapshots of our cities as we speak to the man behind Milan’s Bosco Verticale a decade on from construction, revisit a collection of essays 14 years after they were written while strolling the streets of Toronto and see how the refurbishment of a traditional house in Old Delhi is giving a view into the city’s past. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30 min
FEB 24

Tall Stories 447: Kennedy Park, Lima

Elna Schutz takes us to a park in Lima best known for its large number of well-cared-for resident cats. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6 min
FEB 20

Digital democracy and the new Riyadh Metro

We explore how going digital can contribute to a thriving city democracy and improve other things such as climate resilience and urban loneliness. The CEO of digital community-engagement platform Go Vocal describes its benefit for communities, the developer behind Europe’s most digitally connected neighbourhood tells us how they did it and we stop by the new Riyadh Metro. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30 min
FEB 17

Tall Stories 446: Villa Rezek, Vienna

Alexei Korolyov tells us about the refurbishment of one of Vienna’s most important modernist buildings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9 min

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Andrew Tuck

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281 Ratings

So much to learn

03/03/2022

LG123forever

As someone looking to get into the city planning/public transportation sectors, this is such an interesting way to keep learning about cities round the world
Phenomenal

01/27/2015

Jono H

Cookies for your brain. This is deep, interesting and thought provoking.
Required listening

02/05/2013

javester

It's RadioLab for the urbanist!

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.