The Urbanist

By: Monocle
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  • Summary

  • 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.

    2024 Monocle
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Episodes
  • How monarchs shape our cities

    How monarchs shape our cities
    Aug 15 2024

    Throughout history, kings and queens have commissioned buildings all around the world but just how much has their vision shaped the cities of today? We explore the new book, ‘Royalty and Architecture’, with its editor Clive Aslet. Plus: we visit a place that saw everything from coronations to royal funerals and check on the rebuilding efforts of Notre Dame five years on from a devastating fire.

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    28 mins
  • Tall Stories 250: UN headquarters, New York

    Tall Stories 250: UN headquarters, New York
    Mar 29 2021
    Christopher Cermak charts his journey from model UN to reporting on the real thing and explains what the organisation’s New York HQ means to the city. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    6 mins
  • Tall Stories 421: Le Carreau du Temple, Paris

    Tall Stories 421: Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
    Aug 12 2024

    David Stevens visits a historic part of Paris that has been a celebrated example of a mixed-use space for centuries.

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    4 mins
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