With these grey and rainy sundays IN ROME it is a pleasure to listen to Monocle’s Weekly radio broadcast, at lunchtime.

This week Mr Brule’ and guests discuss about innovative, small-scale shops …and that’s in Berlin. And also, about innovation in printed media, guess where…in Berlin, again.

With the crisis beating into cookie-cutter big-scale operations, sustainable models like Berlin win. As per our Ideal Neighborhood list.

Listen to today’s broadcast here: Monocle Weekly – February 1st 2009

BerlinRomExpress has started a research on craftmanship in Berlin one month ago, you will have soon the opportunity to read about it on this blog…bear with StripedCat.