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.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 18 days 10 hours 14 minutes
Tall Stories 390: The Don river, Toronto
Tomos Lewis looks at the revitalisation of the Don river, which flows from Toronto’s ravine system into Lake Ontario.
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Best of ‘Tall Stories’ 2023
Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, rounds up his favourite episodes of ‘Tall Stories’ from the year.
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Tall Stories 389: Civilian Hotel, New York
Paul Logothetis takes us to a theatregoer’s dream on New York’s West 48th Street.
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The best of 2023
Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, looks back at some of his favourite interviews and reports from 2023 on ‘The Urbanist’.
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Festive special
The Urbanist team jumps feet first down the chimney and into the holiday season with a look at how our cities change at this time of year.
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Tall Stories 388: Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, New York
Mary Holland tells the story of one of New York’s most beloved festive traditions.
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Urban mental health
We investigate what effect the urban environment has on city dwellers’ mental health – from high stress to increased isolation – and explore some of the ways in which cities can provide a solution to these problems.
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Tall Stories 387: Boston Athenaeum
Gregory Scruggs takes us to one of the oldest libraries in the US to explore its fascinating role in Boston’s history.
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Driving change
We explore how the age of technology is having an influence on our roads and how one country is trying to reduce its dependence on cars.
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Tall Stories 386: Sandkaj Harbour bath, Copenhagen
Carla Hyenne explores some of the Danish capital's blue spaces to find out just how important they are to residents.
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