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.
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2025-02-20 | We explore how going digital can contribute to a thriving city democracy and improve other things such as climate resilience and urban loneliness. The CEO of digital community-engagement platform Go Vocal describes its benefit for communities, the deve... |
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2025-02-17 | Alexei Korolyov tells us about the refurbishment of one of Vienna’s most important modernist buildings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2025-02-13 | We take a look at three developments in the UK capital that will be worth a visit in the months to come. From a revitalised piece of industrial history to a colourful waterside park in a grey business district and the big tenants pitching up beside Que... |
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2025-02-10 | Geetanjali Krishna takes us to a temporary city on the banks of the Ganges river to investigate a large example of temporary urbanism brought about by a Hindu pilgrimage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2025-02-06 | We explore how keeping culture in mind when planning our cities can have effects beyond just arts-related improvements. The people behind ‘The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning’ tell us more. Plus: we visit a treasured museum in Lima and lo... |
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2025-02-03 | Carla Hyenne describes the history of Paris’s Sacré-Cœur basilica, which holds a history that many of those who visit the monument today might not be familiar with.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2025-01-30 | We discuss the environmental causes, political response and mobility fallout surrounding the Los Angeles wildfires. We examine some of the thousands of structures lost to this catastrophic blaze that tore through many of LA’s neighbourhoods and communi... |
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2025-01-27 | Petri Burtsoff visits his home city to see how it has revived its “canopy kiosks”, which have been a distinctive feature of the Finnish capital for a century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2025-01-23 | From creating more resilient cities to how architecture can lift a community, cities hold the key to meaningful change in the world. Monocle’s Carlota Rebelo reports from The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos to find out where cities are h... |
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2025-01-20 | Tomos Lewis ponders a potential spring clean of Canada’s official prime ministerial residence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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