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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Get smart
We explore the smart city to find out how the world of data can contribute to a more personalised experience, and a better quality of life in the places that we call home.
Tall Stories 271: Monte Amiata housing complex, Milan
Monocle’s Ivan Carvalho visits a postwar apartment complex from the 1960s that remains a thriving mini-city today.
Berlin Questions: In discussion with city leaders
We speak to some of the leading public officials present at the recent Berlin Questions conference about how their cities have fared in the past 18 months.
Tall Stories 270: Montevideo’s stained glass
Monocle’s Lucinda Elliott admires a few examples of the Uruguayan capital’s surprising speciality of stained-glass windows.
Rebirth of public art
We look at how public art can contribute to a rebirth for cities and create more welcoming public spaces. Is there a better way to ensure that your city remains vibrant than by integrating art with the built environment?
Tall Stories 269: Paul and Babe, Bemidji
Kimberly Bradley visits the iconic roadside statues of the lumberjack Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox to ponder what these oversized attractions, and others like them, mean to tourists today.
Reading the city
Bookshops are anchors in our communities, where we can go to get away to far-flung places without leaving our own neighbourhoods.
Tall Stories 268: Ljubljana Mosque
Guy De Launey brings us the story of a mosque in Slovenia that was more than 50 years in the making.
School’s out
How does inner-city school design affect the way children learn and grow, and how should school blueprints change in the future?
Tall Stories 267: Danube-Auen National Park, Vienna
We visit one of the finest remaining low wetlands in Europe, of which a large chunk sits within Vienna’s borders.