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The Urbanist

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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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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★	3 Jul 2023 5 min	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
611	29 Jun 2023 37 min	Sound spaces: We explore how designing with acoustics in mind can shape our urban environment and the effect of music spaces on a city’s social fabric.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	26 Jun 2023 5 min	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
610	22 Jun 2023 32 min	City profile: Bratislava: Change is afoot in the Slovak capital. We meet Matus Vallo, Bratislava’s bass-playing architect mayor, and his unofficial network of urban change-makers to hear about the city’s renaissance. From improved public spaces to the restoration of neglected buildings, this is a city on the up.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	19 Jun 2023 7 min	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
609	15 Jun 2023 29 min	Toronto’s mayoral election: As Toronto prepares for a snap mayoral election on 26 June, we explore the urban issues at stake and hear how the vote presents an opportunity for change.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	12 Jun 2023 6 min	Tall Stories 361: Habitat 67, Montreal: Paul Logothetis explores the terraces and towers of Montreal’s most famous housing complex.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
608	8 Jun 2023 30 min	Rethinking spaces for transport: We explore some examples of adaptive reuse that are transforming old transit hubs – and designing new ones. Plus: the annual European Tramdriver Championship.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	5 Jun 2023 7 min	Tall Stories 360: Ontario Place, Toronto: Tomos Lewis assesses plans for Toronto’s iconic waterfront entertainment space.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
607	1 Jun 2023 31 min	Obstacles to innovation: We assess some novel city plans and the obstacles that they have to overcome, from safer autonomous cars to dying downtown cores. We then look at what happens when the best features in a design phase are ignored once built.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	29 May 2023 5 min	Tall Stories 359: The Fiat Tagliero Building, Asmara: Isabella Jewell explores how colonialism shaped the distinctly Italian architecture of the Eritrean capital.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
606	25 May 2023 36 min	Sadie Morgan and tackling homelessness: Sadie Morgan discusses the shortlist for the forthcoming Davidson Prize, how our cities can help rough sleepers and how good planning can improve every aspect of urban life, from housing to infrastructure. Plus: a look at Los Angeles’s solutions to homelessness.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	22 May 2023 7 min	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
605	18 May 2023 29 min	Chasing zero: Cities around the world are making commitments to reduce their net carbon emissions to zero. But what are the steps being taken to ensure this goal is achieved, and who is leading the race towards a greener urban future?	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	15 May 2023 4 min	Tall Stories 357: Verkehrskanzel, Berlin: Paige Reynolds visits a relic of Berlin’s infrastructure that speaks to our cities’ less automated histories.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Urbanist

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Latest episodes

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

Sound spaces:

Tall Stories 363: Cité du Vin, Bordeaux:

City profile: Bratislava:

Tall Stories 362: Madison Square Garden, New York:

Toronto’s mayoral election:

Tall Stories 361: Habitat 67, Montreal:

Rethinking spaces for transport:

Tall Stories 360: Ontario Place, Toronto:

Obstacles to innovation:

Tall Stories 359: The Fiat Tagliero Building, Asmara:

Sadie Morgan and tackling homelessness:

Tall Stories 358: Villa Mairea, Pori:

Chasing zero:

Tall Stories 357: Verkehrskanzel, Berlin: