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
  • The positives of public parks, Kitchener’s glockenspiel and the art of letter carving

    The positives of public parks, Kitchener’s glockenspiel and the art of letter carving
    Nov 21 2024

    We assess all the benefits that public green space brings to a city, visit one of the most German cities in Canada to see how the town glockenspiel brings residents together and investigate the ancient art of letter carving.

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    29 mins
  • Tall Stories 435: Streetcars in El Paso

    Tall Stories 435: Streetcars in El Paso
    Nov 18 2024

    Gregory Scruggs hops aboard a street car in El Paso to find out how the revival of this transportation option has struck a chord with the locals.

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    5 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

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