The Urbanist

By: Monocle
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  • 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.

    2025 Monocle
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  • Urban icons: Luis Barragán’s Mexico City, Hästen 21 and the London Eye

    Urban icons: Luis Barragán’s Mexico City, Hästen 21 and the London Eye
    May 8 2025

    From a Mexican architect’s greatest structures to the famous London Eye, we explore the effect that iconic pieces of the built environment can have on their cities.

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    33 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 457: Biblioteca Pública Virgilio Barco, Bogotá

    Tall Stories 457: Biblioteca Pública Virgilio Barco, Bogotá
    May 5 2025

    Camille Rodríguez Montilla takes us to a masterfully designed public library in the heart of Colombia’s capital.

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    7 mins

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