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2025-01-16 | How can the materials with which we choose to build affect the economics, sustainability and resilience of our built environment? We explore the material world through a recent title about available resources, an explainer on using soil for structures ... |
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2025-01-13 | Tomás Pinheiro describes the recent renovation of one of Okinawa’s Unesco World Heritage Sites after a devastating fire in 2019, as well as the history of reconstructions that this castle has undergone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati... |
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2025-01-09 | We visit two destinations that should factor into your 2025 travel plans. In Portugal we assess the hospitality sector after a record year in visitor numbers, then we tune in to the sounds of Tokyo to hear what sonic attractions await you in the Japane... |
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2025-01-06 | Guy de Launey reviews an icon of Yugoslav architecture in a motorway service station just outside Zagreb.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2025-01-02 | Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, rounds up his favourite episodes of ‘Tall Stories’ from 2024.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2024-12-26 | Monocle’s editor-in-chief Andrew Tuck recalls some of his favourite interviews and reports from the year on ‘The Urbanist’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2024-12-19 | Our holiday special brings you a collection of yuletide traditions from cities around the world. Then, we roll out another festive round of ‘The Urbanist’ quiz and give you the perfect gift idea for the urbanist in your life.See omnystudio.com/listener... |
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2024-12-16 | Jessica Bridger straps on her skis and takes us to a grand American resort whose wild, man-made landscape stuns visitors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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2024-12-12 |
Swimmable cities, Battersea Power Station and indigenous retail Matt Sykes, co-founder and convenor of Swimmable Cities, describes how our urban centres can band together to promote more swimmable urban waterways. Then Sebastien Ricard from Wilkinsoneyre unpacks the transformation of the Battersea Power Station and... |
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2024-12-09 | Elna Schutz explores how antiquity and modernity coexist in the city of Cusco, perched high in the Andes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. |
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