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. 

https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist

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Rebuilding from the ashes


From Warsaw to Beirut, via Dubai, Paris and Barcelona, we find out how cities are rebuilding. The Urbanist also visits the World Architecture Festival.


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 November 10, 2011  49m
 
 

Surviving without public transport


We head to Phnom Penh, to find out how the capital survives without public transit. Plus, Brazilian architect Milton Bragga on his favourite building.


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 November 3, 2011  53m
 
 

Brick storytellers


The Urbanist speaks with author Leo Hollis about how bricks and mortar can tell the story of a city and we also get inside the head of Central London’s only sheep.


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 October 27, 2011  53m
 
 

Urbanised with The Urbanist


For the inaugural episode of The Urbanist, we visit Copenhagen to meet Jan Gehl and editor Andrew Tuck speaks with ‘Urbanized’ filmmaker Gary Hustwit.


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 October 20, 2011  50m