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The secrets to urban crowd control, compassionate design and the World Tramdriver Championship
We find out how cities move crowds safely and efficiently, investigate how design can affect health and wellbeing, and stop by the World Tramdriver C…
9 months ago
Tall Stories 477: Biidaasige Park – how Toronto combines green space and flood protection
Mandy Sinclair takes us to Toronto to explore the largest new park opening in a generation, which helps to prevent flooding and provide green space f…
9 months, 1 week ago
What we learned at the World Design Congress
As the World Design Congress ponders a response to climate change, we meet one of the world’s best architects and an indigenous design expert. Plus: …
9 months, 1 week ago
Tall Stories 476: Dulles International Airport’s Mobile Lounges, Washington
Gregory Scruggs unpacks a heritage feature of Dulles International Airport in Washington that to this day gives the terminal a unique charm.
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9 months, 2 weeks ago
Cape Town’s liveability secrets – highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference
What are Cape Town’s secrets to liveability, how do you act like a local in Barcelona and why is the UAE the best place to bring people together?
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9 months, 2 weeks ago
Tall Stories 475: Bethlem Royal Hospital and Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London
Monocle’s Sophie Monaghan-Coombs tells us the story of the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, founded in the 13th century in London.
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9 months, 3 weeks ago
Want to find utopia? Try Columbia, Maryland
We visit one of the US’s more successful attempts at a utopian society, as well as a mass-timber tower in Portland and the winners of the Aga Khan Aw…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Tall Stories 474: Fuggerei, Augsburg – Germany’s 88-cent rent
Valerie Hamilton takes us to the world’s oldest public-housing complex, which has a very unique payment system.
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9 months, 4 weeks ago
Crowdfunding community projects, personalised airport terminals and a Swiss folk festival
We explore a crowdfunding platform for community projects, learn how to personalise the airport-retail experience and head to the Olten Chilbi folk f…
10 months ago
Tall Stories 473: The Hope for Peace Monument, Beirut
Noor Amylia Hilda takes us to the outskirts of Beirut to visit a monument for peace constructed from instruments of war.
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10 months ago