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Travel with Rick Steves

510a Megalopolis; Copenhagen's Christiania; Teenagers in Europe

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

An architecture professor from Italy compares the scope of today's mega-cities with the more human scale of Venice. A pair of documentary producers tell us what they found when they got to know the residents of a legendary commune in the middle of Copenhagen. And we get mom-tested advice for making everyone happy on an overseas trip with teenagers.

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0:00.0

Many cities around the world are growing so fast that there just isn't room for everyone.

0:05.0

Today on Travel With Rick Steve, Salvatore Setus looks at how today's mega cities often overlook the needs of their newest residents who land in crowded suburbs that

0:14.1

frequently turn into slums. In the peripheries which have been built without spaces

0:18.9

for social life. On the other hand Copenhagen has been experimenting with a commune in the middle of town

0:24.2

that's become a popular tourist attraction.

0:26.6

Get beyond Pusher Street and walk around and look at the buildings and start talking

0:31.4

to the residents because it's so much more than that.

0:34.6

We'll also get mom tested advice for traveling to Europe with your teenage kids.

0:38.6

Teenagers have a much stronger sense of what they want to accomplish on the trip. There's things they want to see things they want to do and they're still teenagers. They still don't want you to tell them what to do.

0:48.5

Travel tips that even a teenager can love, plus making cities livable for all their citizens.

0:54.3

It's just ahead on travel with Rick Steves.

0:57.0

Hi, I'm Rick Steves.

1:02.0

As the world grapples with the coronavirus and news changes almost daily about it,

1:07.0

let's continue to enjoy the many cultures and experiences that await our discovery when this crisis is old news.

1:14.0

Thanks for joining us for Travel with Rick Steves.

1:17.0

What you need to know to make an overseas trip with a teenager or a pre-teen

1:22.0

can be a lot different from the advice you give parents of a toddler.

1:25.5

Coming up in the hour ahead, we'll look at what you should know to make it a trip for everyone

1:29.4

to enjoy.

1:30.8

And we'll look at Copenhagen's experiment with a communal self-governed neighborhood called

1:34.3

Christanya, from a pair of documentary filmmakers who've studied the legendary neighborhood

1:38.6

up close.

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