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With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartme...

We discover two projects aiming to deliver a human-centric masterplan: Ion Riva in Turkey and Diriyah in Saudi Arabia. Plus: how the Fleet S...

Gustavo Ocando Alex takes us to a church in Venezuela's second city of Maracaibo that helps tell the story of the country's history. See omn...

Carlota Rebelo reports from the Bloomberg CityLab summit in Madrid, bringing us conversations with the most insightful speakers who have des...

Tomás Pinheiro heads to Shanghai's Suzhou Creek to see how the area went from a forgotten district to a sought-after commercial and r...

Bridge designer Ezra Groskin from Moxon Architects talks about how his craft connects our cities. Then: Kate Brown describes the quiet revol...

Alexei Korolyov takes a ride on Linz's Grottenbahn – a classic tourist attraction that takes you through one of the city's former fort...

We look at the legacy left by Milan's Expo 2015 and the Olympic Winter Games on urban infrastructure. Then: Ottawa's winter-transport report...

Camille Rodríguez Montilla investigates the dark history and hopeful future of Caracas's mall-turned-political-prison – El Heli...

We discuss some of the promises that led to Zohran Mamdani's election, from affordability and small businesses to transit. Plus: how are imm...

Petri Burtsoff takes us to Sajos, in Finland's northern Lapland, a centre for culture and administration in the Sámi community. See o...

Guy de Launey reports from Urban Future, a Better Cities event taking place this year in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. See omnystudio....

Gregory Scruggs tells the odd tale of the energy-sapping totem that is Santo Domingo's Columbus Lighthouse. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

We speak with Apple's VP of places, Kristina Raspe, about how the tech giant's real-estate portfolio adds to cities. Then: the changing face...

Clarissa Wei climbs Taiwan's best-known tower to investigate the clever engineering that keeps it in the sky. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...

We reflect on Mipim conversations with the executive director of UN Habitat, as well as representatives from the New York City Housing Autho...

Andrew Tuck goes searching for the remains of the home of a 1930s Hollywood star in Mallorca's Bay of Palma. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

We report from the world's leading real estate event, Mipim. Here we meet mayors from Turku to Genoa and Lisbon to Rome who are putting thei...

Tomas Pinheiro takes us to Tiong Bahru Estate to see how Singapore is able to succeed at the 15 minute city model within just one urban deve...

We visit Oslo to see the New Government Quarter, which has transformed the site of the city's 2011 terrorist attacks into an open, civic spa...

Paul Logothetis takes us to a hotel in Manhattan that has been transforming since its construction in the 1960s. See omnystudio.com/listener...

We speak to Málaga's officials, architects, artists and restaurateurs to assess its urban transformation. Plus: we speak to the CEO o...

Gustavo Ocando Alex tells the story of the Maracaibo Metro, which has garnered a particularly diminutive nickname thanks to its limited cove...

Training our lens on Toronto, we look at Pinnacle Skytower, one of its newest skyscrapers; explore Indigenous Hub, a new mixed-use developme...

Alexei Korolyov visits a key work of Viennese modernism by Austrian design icon Josef Frank, which has been reopened after a five-year resto...

We visit the capital of the Dominican Republic to see how its historic centre is balancing residential and tourist appeal. We also stop by S...

Dennis Maher, artist and the founder and director of The Assembly House, describes how his project is helping to preserve more than just str...

We report from the World Governments Summit, where we speak to Khalfan Belhoul of Dubai Future Foundation; German minister for digital trans...

Geetanjali Krishna takes us to Budapest's largest public collection of books to study how its popularity with locals is growing, thanks to r...

We explore the Melbourne Metro Tunnel, which has recently opened in the Victorian capital. Plus: Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao joins Mono...

Petri Burtsoff takes us to a festival grounds that acts as a lasting symbol of Estonian national pride. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Carlota Rebelo reports from the World Economic Forum in Davos to share some urban lessons from this year's meeting. Then: Ed Stocker gives u...

Grace Charlton takes us to a literary stalwart and community pillar in Florence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're joined by former City of Toronto chief planner Gregg Lintern to discuss priorities for Canadian cities. Plus: we visit Cascadia to see...

Andrew Mueller takes us to the Australian War Memorial to find out the nature of and reasons for its recent refit. See omnystudio.com/listen...

We meet Dr Gary Yohe, a Nobel Peace prize recipient for his work on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Then: we d...

Tomás Pinheiro explains how an act of urban erasure in the Thai capital stole the charm from one of the city's iconic structures. See...

Monocle's editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, rounds up his favourite episodes of 'Tall Stories' from 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Monocle's editor-in-chief Andrew Tuck recalls some of his favourite interviews and reports from the year on 'The Urbanist'. See omnystudio.c...

We assess how the design of healthcare facilities can improve not just the experience of treatment but also the neighbourhoods in which thes...

Gregory Scruggs tells us the tale of the oldest existing synagogue in the United States. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

We speak to Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider – two of the authors behind 'Architecture is Climate' – a new book rethinking the...

Alexei Korolyov visits an air-raid bunker that has laid empty for decades but is now being brought back to life through art. See omnystudio....

We report from MIPIM Asia in Hong Kong, where delegates from across the APAC region and beyond discussed solutions to meet the rapid pace of...

Paul Logothetis takes us to an iconic feature of Athens' urban fabric – covered walkways offering much needed shade and a space for so...

JLL's Sue Asprey Price joins us to discuss the findings from the Workforce Preference Barometer 2025. Then Charlotte McDonald-Gibson reports...

Jessica Bridger marvels at the tallest dam in Europe, which was constructed in the 1950s and supplies about 20 per cent of Switzerland's sto...

We speak to South Korean artist Jinjoon Lee about how his country interacts with public art, Inzamam Rashid visits an acclaimed installation...

Petri Burtsoff takes us to a first-of-its-kind wooden educational building in the Finnish capital. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

We visit the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona to talk shop with the mayor of Kuala Lumpur, an acclaimed futurist, a transportatio...

Ivan Carvalho chronicles the story of Frank Lloyd Wright's largest public project, the final commission in his impressive body of work. See...