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
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 18 days 11 hours 25 minutes
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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Small Cities Index
We discuss the Small Cities Index from Monocle’s latest edition of ‘The Forecast’ and explore two different examples of adaptive reuse – one from Hamilton, Ontario, and another from London, UK.
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Tall Stories 385: Boscombe Surf Reef, Bournemouth
Amy Van Den Berg visits a failed project on England’s south coast to find out what the unsuccessful attraction means for the town.
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Destigmatising density
Urban density is an inevitable issue for our cities. As more and more people move into urban areas, we need to know how to do density right and make it welcoming on a human scale. We report from the annual Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat conference, which this year has the theme of ‘Humanising High Density’, and we discuss the rerelease of a book from the 1920s extolling the virtues of a busy, bustling city.
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Tall Stories 384: Niagara Glen
Mandy Sinclair meets Michele-Elise Burnett to take the tour that she created for the Niagara Glen park and trail system.
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Urbanism in the UAE
Being a young nation presents its own set of challenges but it also provides ample opportunity to innovate when thinking about the future of cities. We meet the CEO of URB, who’s dreaming up planet-friendly, utopian cityscapes, and tour Expo City Dubai to explore the site’s sustainable ambitions.
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Tall Stories 383: Singapore Turf Club
Lilian Fawcett looks at how Singapore’s only racecourse is being redeveloped to create space for more homes in this densely populated city state.
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Active cities
How can urban environments encourage city dwellers to be more active? From urban design to office architecture, we investigate some of the key players making an effort to keep people moving.
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