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Boxy apartment buildings. Industrial-chic coffee shops. Fast-casual salads. Are cities everywhere becoming indistinguishable? Audie and Ari dissect the trend with help from travel guru Rick Steves, who has ideas for how to keep the places we visit and call home vibrant and real.

About the show: Welcome to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro’s Engagement Party, where the hot takes are the smart takes. After years of working side by side, Audie and Ari have made it official with their pop culture video podcast. Party hopping between what you’re watching, reading and scrolling, these longtime friends unpack what matters in our endless feeds.

0:00 Why are cities everywhere starting to look so much alike?
4:35 The rise of the “non-place”
7:01 Cities that retain their distinct culture thrill us (see New Orleans)
9:19 A well-traveled expert weighs in: Rick Steves
11:45 The role of Airbnb in flattening cities’ culture
15:20 How to get away from tourism mosh pits
18:46 Culture shock is a good thing; embrace it
23:59 How to keep our hometowns from getting homogenized
27:51 Take or Tea: Rick on weed vacations and Parisian Tex-Mex
36:10 Touch Grass: Mazatlán vs. Managua

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