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 13: Ponte City
We look at the transformation of Ponte City and discover how it is a symbol of Johannesburg's complex and troubled history.
Prague: Resite 2016
This week we report from Resite, a two-day conference in Prague that aims to tackle one of the biggest challenges for modern cities: migration. We speak with experts, policy-makers and more to understand how cities are standing up to the test.
Tall Stories 12: Haydarpasa Station
A genteel slice of Germania on the Bosphorus, Istanbul’s old Haydarpasa Station is the real junction in Turkey’s modern history.
Refugees and integration
We explore examples of integration in Europe, from a Viennese restaurant that hires only refugees to the Refugee Aid Miksaliste organisation in Belgrade. Plus: how a park in Copenhagen became a global symbol of multiculturalism.
Tall Stories 11: Estadio Centenario
It’s one of the most storied sporting arenas in Uruguay and one of the most fabled football stadiums in the world. We head to Montevideo to explore the 1930s art deco gem Estadio Centenario.
AoU: the future of urbanism
It’s not an easy task to examine the great urban trends of tomorrow. This week we report from the 10th Congress of the Academy of Urbanism and hear the lessons that cities can learn from each other.
Tall Stories 10: the British Library
We head to central London's Euston Road to visit the British Library. Back in 2014 when the building was given its heritage listing, it created much chatter and surprise among those who remember its turbulent story; we find out why.
Legacy
What lessons can we learn from past urbanists about how to build a better future for our cities? We discuss everything from how to make a good urban design outlast its designer to rebuilding from the ground up and Kenzo Tange. Plus: Vienna’s Nazi past.
Tall Stories 9: Sydney’s Opera House
The Sydney Opera House opened in 1973 and has since become the city’s most recognisable building. Unique as an arts venue, nothing looked like it before and nothing has looked like it since.
The Urbanist Live – London special
In this special live episode of The Urbanist, Monocle editor Andrew Tuck hands over the floor to city-planners and urban leaders to discuss how to build a better London. Featuring Peter York, consultant and author, Sharon Ament, the director of the Museum of London, Peter Wynne Rees, professor of places and city planning at UCL and Christopher Choa, vice-president at Aecom.