We're sunsetting PodQuest on 2025-07-28. Thank you for your support!
Export Podcast Subscriptions

The Urbanist

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide

Episodes

Total: 144

We’re calling another meeting of ‘The Urbanist’ bookclub to review two titles: &ls

Guy De Launey recounts how Kupari Resort went from jewel in the Adriatic crown to derelict disaster

Can swimmability be an indicator for good quality of life and a healthy city? We report from the ina

Henry Rees-Sheridan recalls what became of Zaha Hadid’s plans for the Cardiff Bay Opera House.

From inclusive neighbourhoods and climate-resilient design to mobility and destination development,

Petri Burtsoff takes us to a historic hotel in Estonia that has stayed true to its design roots for

The urbanist 12/6

2025/6/12

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We look at urbanism from different lenses, from a neighbourhood built on independent brands to a vie

Geetanjali Krishna takes us to a 50-year-old cinema in Jaipur, which is managing to give modern mult

Monocle magazine’s editor, Josh Fehnert, is joined by editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, foreign ed

We explore an innovative pay-to-grow scheme that is helping to encourage tree growth in Sierra Leone

Elena Kuji Buteică guides us through Casa Vintilă Brătianu’s storied past and the careful rest

We recap the successes of the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial. Plus: worker housing in Saudi Arabia an

Sally Howard tells us the secrets behind a repolished jewel in Manhattan’s hospitality crown.S

The V&A East Storehouse

2025/5/22

Born partly out of the necessity to store the V&A’s extensive collection, the V&A East

Sophie Monaghan-Coombs tells us how the new V&A East Storehouse is bringing the memory of brutal

Carlota Rebelo reports from Bratislava for the second edition of the Start with Children summit, unp

Liam Syed takes us to a cultural facility in the West Bank, which provides its users with an outlet

From a Mexican architect’s greatest structures to the famous London Eye, we explore the effect

Camille Rodríguez Montilla takes us to a masterfully designed public library in the heart of