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The Urbanist

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.

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Episodes
  • Tall Stories 479: Dubai’s totemic Toyota Building

    Tall Stories 479: Dubai’s totemic Toyota Building
    Oct 6 2025

    Inzamam Rashid tells us how an advertising partnership helped to shape the identity of a burgeoning Dubai.

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    7 mins
  • What can cities learn from nature? Discover The Bioplanning Institute and the Bundanon Art Museum

    What can cities learn from nature? Discover The Bioplanning Institute and the Bundanon Art Museum
    Oct 2 2025

    We meet Dror Benshetrit, a founding member of The Bioplanning Institute, who’s reframing urbanism through an ecological design lens. Plus: how the Bundanon Art Museum in Australia teaches cities to better interact with the natural world.

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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
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