TagsMonocle 24: The Urbanist

MIPIM Asia 2025: What are Asian cities learning from each other?

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

Tall Stories 487: Strolling Athens’ stoas

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

Testing the pressure on our cities with the 2025 Workforce Preference Barometer

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

Tall Stories 486: The towering beauty of Switzerland’s Grande Dixence Dam

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

What relationship does South Korea have with public art? Plus: Dubai Design Week and Riba president Chris Williamson.

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

Tall Stories 485: Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Natural Sciences

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

Planning the cities of the future at the Smart City Expo World Congress

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

Tall Stories 484: Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael

Ivan Carvalho chronicles the story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s largest public project, the final commission in his impressive body of work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Liz Diller on how the High Line continues to evolve in New York 

We speak to Liz Diller – the mind behind New York’s High Line – visit Bratislava’s first dedicated centre for architecture and urbanism, and...