TagsMonocle 24: The Urbanist

Finding out what our urban futures hold in Ljubljana

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

Tall Stories 502: The Columbus Lighthouse’s bizarre origin story

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

How Apple delivers a sense of place to the built environment

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 of...

Tall Stories 501: How does Taipei 101 stay standing? It’s what’s inside that counts

Clarissa Wei climbs Taiwan’s best-known tower to investigate the clever engineering that keeps it in the sky.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Source link

More from the world’s leading real estate event – Mipim

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

Tall Stories 500: Shadows of Errol Flynn in Mallorca

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 privacy information. Source...

Meet the mayors at Mipim, the world’s leading real-estate event

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...

Tall Stories 499: Masterful mixed-use at Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Estate

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

Balancing security and aesthetic appeal in Oslo’s New Government Quarter

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...