717 Bill Bryson At Home; Pico Iyer In Search of Paradise; Walkable Cities

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Rick Steves

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

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🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Author Bill Bryson describes how buying an old house in England has made him appreciate how dramatically domestic life has changed in just a few generations. Then writer Pico Iyer explains why visiting difficult destinations can shed light on where — or what — "paradise" might be. And urban planner Jeff Speck celebrates some of the North American cities that are catching up with their European cousins in designing pedestrian-friendly streetscapes.

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0:00.0	When Bill Bryson bought a Victorian era
0:03.1	personage in an English village,
0:04.8	he soon realized that the people who built it
0:07.0	would be baffled by the modern comforts
0:09.2	and expectations that we take for granted today.
0:12.5	You can write a very good history of the world
0:14.2	by just looking at the things in your house.
0:16.6	Bill Bryson takes us on a journey
0:18.2	without ever leaving home.
0:20.3	Pico Iyer finds something new to discover
0:22.3	wherever he goes in the world.
0:24.1	Everything interesting about this place
0:25.6	is what I haven't known about,
0:27.0	and that's what makes it exciting.
0:28.7	Pico looks for paradise in some of the most
0:30.9	unlikely places on Earth.
0:33.0	And Jeff's back reminds us that redesigning our cities
0:35.9	for people to safely walk and bike everywhere
0:39.0	can actually solve traffic congestion.
0:41.5	We design our cities around cars
0:43.8	and they are no longer good cities to live in.
0:46.8	Come along for the hour ahead.
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