The Urbanist

Mar 06 2025 100 ep. 18 mins 11.2k

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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.

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The Round megadevelopment in London and air pollution in Bangkok

Mar 06 2025 30 mins

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.

Tall Stories 448: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas

Mar 03 2025 7 mins

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.

Revisiting, reviewing and restoring the city

Feb 27 2025 30 mins

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

Tall Stories 447: Kennedy Park, Lima

Feb 24 2025 5 mins

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.

Digital democracy and the new Riyadh Metro

Feb 20 2025 29 mins

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

Tall Stories 446: Villa Rezek, Vienna

Feb 17 2025 8 mins

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

Developing London

Feb 13 2025 30 mins

We take a look at three developments in the UK capital that will be worth a visit in the months to come. From a revitalised piece of industrial history to a colourful waterside park in a grey business district and the big tenants pitching up beside Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tall Stories 445: Maha Kumbh Mela, Prayagraj

Feb 10 2025 6 mins

Geetanjali Krishna takes us to a temporary city on the banks of the Ganges river to investigate a large example of temporary urbanism brought about by a Hindu pilgrimage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cultural city planning

Feb 06 2025 29 mins

We explore how keeping culture in mind when planning our cities can have effects beyond just arts-related improvements. The people behind ‘The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning’ tell us more. Plus: we visit a treasured museum in Lima and look ahead to some cultural institutions that are set to open in 2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tall Stories 444: Sacré-Cœur, Paris

Feb 03 2025 4 mins

Carla Hyenne describes the history of Paris’s Sacré-Cœur basilica, which holds a history that many of those who visit the monument today might not be familiar with.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.