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3 Jul 2023
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 364: The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro: 

Mariella Bevan browses a historic library that is helping to preserve the written heritage of the Portuguese language in Brazil.

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26 Jun 2023
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 363: Cité du Vin, Bordeaux: 

Amy van den Berg explores a museum that’s bringing tourism back to the city in one of France’s most famous wine regions.

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19 Jun 2023
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 362: Madison Square Garden, New York: 

HJ Mai delves into the debate over what’s next for New York’s most emblematic sports and events venue.

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12 Jun 2023
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 361: Habitat 67, Montreal: 

Paul Logothetis explores the terraces and towers of Montreal’s most famous housing complex.

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5 Jun 2023
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 360: Ontario Place, Toronto: 

Tomos Lewis assesses plans for Toronto’s iconic waterfront entertainment space.

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29 May 2023
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 359: The Fiat Tagliero Building, Asmara: 

Isabella Jewell explores how colonialism shaped the distinctly Italian architecture of the Eritrean capital.

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22 May 2023
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 358: Villa Mairea, Pori: 

Petri Burtsoff takes us to one of Alvar Aalto’s most famous buildings: a modernist demonstration of what mass housing was lacking at the time.

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15 May 2023
4 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 357: Verkehrskanzel, Berlin: 

Paige Reynolds visits a relic of Berlin’s infrastructure that speaks to our cities’ less automated histories.

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8 May 2023
10 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 356: Cermak Road, Chicago: 

Chris Cermak looks into the local Chicago history that is invoked by his relatively rare surname.

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1 May 2023
4 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 355: The Barnes Dance: 

David Stevens investigates a particularly well-choreographed way to cross the road.

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24 Apr 2023
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 354: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia: 

Conor Faulkner visits the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia’s best-known piece of modern architecture, to explain its bumpy creation story.

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17 Apr 2023
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 353: Çamlıca Tower, Istanbul: 

Hannah Lucinda Smith admires a beautiful piece of telecommunications infrastructure in the hills of Istanbul.

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11 Apr 2023
9 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 352: The Georgian Military Highway: 

Jessica Bridger takes a trip down a historical trade route where the driving conditions are often as extreme and wild as the surrounding landscape. 

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3 Apr 2023
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 351: Can Vivot, Palma: 

Andrew Tuck peers inside one of Palma’s many shuttered courtyards to reveal a breathtaking property ordinarily concealed from public view. 

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27 Mar 2023
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 350: Mother of Kartli, Tbilisi: 

Sally Howard visits the “Mother of Georgia” statue to see what this monument to femininity says about the role of women in the post-Soviet state.

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20 Mar 2023
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 349: Jamsu Bridge, Seoul: 

Jeyup S Kwaak brings us the story of Seoul’s ‘diving bridge’, which struggles to keep its head above water during its region’s rainy season.

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13 Mar 2023
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 348: Hollyhock House, Los Angeles: 

Christopher Lord visits one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most impressive Californian creations – the first piece of modern US architecture to make it onto Unesco’s World Heritage List.

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6 Mar 2023
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 347: Park Strip, Anchorage: 

Gregory Scruggs talks us through the various ways that Park Strip has been used since the birth of Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage.

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