640 Invisible City; Under the Wave at Waimea

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Rick Steves

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

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🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

There's an invisible layer to the city where you live. It's meant to make your life easier, but is easy to overlook. Roman Mars of the podcast "99% Invisible" helps us examine how our urban environments are designed. And author Paul Theroux tells us how he explores getting older and the surfing culture near his home on Oahu's North Shore in his latest novel, "Under the Wave at Waimea." 

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0:00.0	Travel writer Paul Thuru has seen America from sea to shining sea.
0:04.8	In fact, when he's not traveling, he divides his time between a home on Cape Cod and one on Oahu's North Shore.
0:11.0	He says there's just something about being near the ocean.
0:14.0	No matter how crowded it is on land, you can always escape to the sea.
0:18.5	You can swim away, you can paddle away, you can sail away.
0:22.5	Coming up Paul Thuru tells us about the Hawaii that's behind his novel,
0:26.0	Under the Wave at Waimea, and how it keeps him feeling young.
0:29.5	Roman Mars likes to view the world with a designer's eye.
0:32.5	He says the hidden stories behind what we see can really amplify the meaning of the city's we call home.
0:39.0	The city is always a conversation between top-down designers and bottom-up interventionists and that conversation is what a city is.
0:46.0	Roman suggests what a curious urbanist can look for around the block in the 99% invisible city.
0:53.5	That's all just ahead on today's Travel with Rick Steves.
0:56.5	Stay with us.
0:59.5	Hey, I'm Rick Steves. In my latest book for the love of Europe, I share highlights of a lifetime of exploring Europe.
1:06.5	My favorite experiences, sights, and encounters in 100 essays.
1:10.5	Order your copy today at ricksteves.com.
1:14.5	His travels to the far corners of the world have inspired dozens of works Paul Thuru has written over the last 50 plus years.
1:22.5	He takes us down the road from his home turf near Honolulu in his latest novel.
1:26.5	Paul reveals what's under the way but why may a little later in the hour ahead.
1:31.5	Roman Mars has been taking a closer look at his surroundings near San Francisco.
1:35.5	He joins us now on Travel with Rick Steves to show us how to look past all the visual clutter and understand the details of how our own cities are put together.
1:44.5	There are clues we overlook all around us.
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