The Urbanist
Monocle’s guide to better cities. Explore urban innovation, cutting-edge infrastructure, and compact living with insights from planners, architects, and city leaders.
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Improving education
Looking at education, we visit Vancouver where public salons are improving speech, stopping via Shanghai, we also attend the Bartlett School of Planning in London.
Shaping cities
Monocle editor Andrew Tuck asks how diasporas shape our cities, visiting Manhattan’s Little Italy and talking to Sao Paulo’s Japanese residents.
Building from scratch
We explore what it takes to make a city from scratch. From new hubs around airports, to a hundred-year-old factory town sucked into a megacity.
Reflecting on The Urbanist
A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives, presented by Monocle’s editor, Andrew Tuck.
Keeping warm in darkness
How do cold climate capitals keep warm in winter’s dark depths? We head to Helsinki to ask the city’s mayor.
Urban spying
We take out our binoculars and spy on birds in London, moose in Anchorage and cows in Delhi while exploring urban wildlife.
Feeding cities
From mega markets to São Paulo’s all-night bakeries, the Urbanist takes a look at how cities keep themselves fed.
The shopping experience
Searching for great shopping experiences, this week we head from Calgary to Fukuoka, talking to retailers about everything from skyways to doggy dishes.
Shanghai reborn and changing London
A family home in the centre of Beirut, a wander through a changing neighbourhood in East London and a French-built factory district in Shanghai reborn.
The importance of seats
This week on The Urbanist we slow down and learn why a good place to sit is as important to a city as towers, transit or trash collection.