Monocle 24: The Urbanist
By Monocle
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Podcast Description
A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives, presented by Monocle’s editor, Andrew Tuck.
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The Urbanist - Edition 32 | A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives, presented by Monocle’s editor, Andrew Tuck. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 31 | Why Los Angeles opted to buy Japanese trains to expand public transport and how Toronto is a city struggling to keep its transport edge. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 30 | The suburban sprawl: we talk with the mayor of Surrey, Vancouver, look at London’s Hampstead, and learn how to control suburbs from Professor Stuart White. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 29 | Signs of the times: a survey of how everything from billboards on skyscrapers to the dazzling advertising displays in Times Square help colour our cities. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 28 | City branding: Simon Anholt and Jeremy Hildreth discuss branding London, Jerusalem’s optimism in rebranding, and how a museum embodies Bilbao. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 27 | Statues and monuments: architect Peter Eisenman discusses Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and we find out why France rejected a statue of Carla Bruni. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 26 | The temporary city: author Peter Bishop joins us to look at transient urban trends in Manhattan and Tokyo. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 25 | Fantasy cities: Peter Murray tells us his vision for 2050, we hear about Beirut’s future plans, and visit a comic artist in Paris. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 24 | Divided cities: from religion to economics, The Urbanist finds out why walls don’t work and how a flourishing neighbourhood doesn’t mean it’s any more neighbourly. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 23 | Business cities: Andrew Tuck speaks to commuters, planners and creatives in Sydney, Beijing, Paris and London to learn what makes a good place do business. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 22 | How to keep a city clean: we meet a London street sweeper, learn why Malmö ditched rubbish trucks, and look at Milan’s graffiti problem. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 21 | Urban neighbours: the Chilean mayor re-housing dogs, an Australian whose garage sale have gone global, and the San Francisco restaurateur who created a food park. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 20 | Rivers: Tom Bolton guides us down London’s lost waterways and we learn about plans to turn part of New York’s East River into a resort. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 19 | Crime and the city: the Chicago prison in a skyscraper, how Oslo street lighting prevents crime, and a look at New York gangsters of old. | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 18 | How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit, and Richard Florida on how to fix a city. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 17 | Skyscrapers: This week’s show is all about tall buildings, from icons of hope to crumbling remains of empires in decline. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 16 | How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit, and Richard Florida on how to fix a city. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 15 | We learn about an ice hockey stadium turned into a grocery store, ask how London cabs could be greener, and visit Zürich’s Freitag Tower. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 14 | 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. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 13 | Monocle editor Andrew Tuck asks how diasporas shape our cities, visiting Manhattan’s Little Italy and talking to Sao Paulo’s Japanese residents. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 12 | 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. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 11 | Monocle editor Andrew Tuck hosts a collection of the best bits from the first 10 weeks of The Urbanist. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 10 | How do cold climate capitals keep warm in winter’s dark depths? We head to Helsinki to ask the city’s mayor. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 9 | We take out our binoculars and spy on birds in London, moose in Anchorage and cows in Delhi while exploring urban wildlife. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 8 | From mega markets to São Paulo’s all-night bakeries, the Urbanist takes a look at how cities keep themselves fed. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 7 | Searching for great shopping experiences, this week we head from Calgary to Fukuoka, talking to retailers about everything from skyways to doggy dishes. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 6 | 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. | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 5 | 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. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 4 | From Warsaw to Beirut, via Dubai, Paris and Barcelona, we find out how cities are rebuilding. The Urbanist also visits the World Architecture Festival. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 3 | We head to Phnom Penh, to find out how the capital survives without public transit. Plus, Brazilian architect Milton Bragga on his favourite building. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 2 | The Urbanist speaks with author Leo Hollis about how bricks and mortar can tell the story of a city and we also get inside the head of Central London’s only sheep. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Urbanist - Edition 1 | For the inaugural episode of The Urbanist, we visit Copenhagen to meet Jan Gehl and editor Andrew Tuck speaks with ‘Urbanized’ filmmaker Gary Hustwit. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 32 Episodes |
