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The Urbanist
A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives, presented by Monocle’s editor, Andrew Tuck.
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| # | Date | Duration | Duration | Download | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play | 31 | 17/05/2012 | 00:51:12 | Why Los Angeles opted to buy Japanese trains to expand public transport and how Toronto is a city struggling to keep its transport edge. | Download |
| Play | 30 | 10/05/2012 | 00:51:39 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 29 | 03/05/2012 | 00:51:59 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 28 | 26/04/2012 | 00:49:17 | City branding: Simon Anholt and Jeremy Hildreth discuss branding London, Jerusalem’s optimism in rebranding, and how a museum embodies Bilbao. | Download |
| Play | 27 | 19/04/2012 | 00:50:34 | Statues and monuments: architect Peter Eisenman discusses Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and we find out why France rejected a statue of Carla Bruni. | Download |
| Play | 26 | 12/04/2012 | 00:49:30 | The temporary city: author Peter Bishop joins us to look at transient urban trends in Manhattan and Tokyo. | Download |
| Play | 25 | 05/04/2012 | 00:49:58 | Fantasy cities: Peter Murray tells us his vision for 2050, we hear about Beirut’s future plans, and visit a comic artist in Paris. | Download |
| Play | 24 | 29/03/2012 | 00:51:50 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 23 | 22/03/2012 | 00:51:23 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 22 | 15/03/2012 | 00:52:33 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 21 | 08/03/2012 | 00:51:27 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 20 | 01/03/2012 | 00:51:58 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 19 | 23/02/2012 | 00:51:27 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 18 | 16/02/2012 | 00:52:30 | How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit, and Richard Florida on how to fix a city. | Download |
| Play | 17 | 09/02/2012 | 00:50:18 | Skyscrapers: This week’s show is all about tall buildings, from icons of hope to crumbling remains of empires in decline. | Download |
| Play | 16 | 02/02/2012 | 00:52:40 | How New York is bringing back small businesses, urban researcher John Bingham-Hall on Detroit, and Richard Florida on how to fix a city. | Download |
| Play | 15 | 26/01/2012 | 00:49:06 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 14 | 19/01/2012 | 00:53:47 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 13 | 12/01/2012 | 00:50:16 | Monocle editor Andrew Tuck asks how diasporas shape our cities, visiting Manhattan’s Little Italy and talking to Sao Paulo’s Japanese residents. | Download |
| Play | 12 | 05/01/2012 | 00:53:31 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 11 | 23/12/2011 | 00:53:31 | Monocle editor Andrew Tuck hosts a collection of the best bits from the first 10 weeks of The Urbanist. | Download |
| Play | 10 | 22/12/2011 | 00:53:31 | How do cold climate capitals keep warm in winter’s dark depths? We head to Helsinki to ask the city’s mayor. | Download |
| Play | 9 | 15/12/2011 | 00:43:23 | We take out our binoculars and spy on birds in London, moose in Anchorage and cows in Delhi while exploring urban wildlife. | Download |
| Play | 8 | 08/12/2011 | 00:53:37 | From mega markets to São Paulo’s all-night bakeries, the Urbanist takes a look at how cities keep themselves fed. | Download |
| Play | 7 | 01/12/2011 | 00:49:25 | Searching for great shopping experiences, this week we head from Calgary to Fukuoka, talking to retailers about everything from skyways to doggy dishes. | Download |
| Play | 6 | 24/11/2011 | 00:50:28 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 5 | 17/11/2011 | 00:50:08 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 4 | 10/11/2011 | 00:49:28 | From Warsaw to Beirut, via Dubai, Paris and Barcelona, we find out how cities are rebuilding. The Urbanist also visits the World Architecture Festival. | Download |
| Play | 3 | 03/11/2011 | 00:53:31 | We head to Phnom Penh, to find out how the capital survives without public transit. Plus, Brazilian architect Milton Bragga on his favourite building. | Download |
| Play | 2 | 27/10/2011 | 00:53:26 | 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. | Download |
| Play | 1 | 20/10/2011 | 00:50:02 | For the inaugural episode of The Urbanist, we visit Copenhagen to meet Jan Gehl and editor Andrew Tuck speaks with ‘Urbanized’ filmmaker Gary Hustwit. | Download |
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