Nice Try!

By Curbed

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What's Nice Try! about?

Nice Try! explores the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perpetual search for the perfect place, the ways that search can go spectacularly wrong, and what comes after. Thursdays starting May 30th, from Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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The Vacuum

10.21.2021

One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who does this work, and how good do we have to be at it? When is it okay to depend on some kind of help? ...

Nice Try! episodes:

10.21.2021 The Vacuum One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who does this work, and how good do we have to be at it? When is it okay to depend on some kind of help? ...
10.14.2021 The Doorbell The American dream of a suburban house with a white picket fence cordons off the home as a haven, separate from the outside world. This personal, private utopia becomes defined by who gets let in. And that is determined by ...
10.07.2021 Season 2: Interior Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, and sleep -- as we attempt to sail to the unreachable shore of a better life. Hosted by Avery Trufelman. From ...
10.29.2020 Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble Go For Broke is a new narrative series from Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network exploring the 2000 dot-com bubble... and what happened when the bubble popped. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/31ovruD ...
09.21.2020 Avery shares Optimism from the Cut While you're waiting patiently for the next season of Nice Try!, we're sharing another podcast our host Avery Trufelman has been working on that we think you'll really like: the Cut from New York Magazine. In the Cut's first episode, ...
08.15.2019 Disney World: Celebrating Utopia Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding, Caity Weaver grew up vacationing in utopia. Specifically: Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. During a recent live event at the 92Y in ...
07.18.2019 Herland: Reimagine Utopia What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely driven by the will and power of a charismatic leader - usually a man, usually white. How do you build a utopia, then, ...
07.11.2019 Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem in a domed research facility in Arizona. Inside the dome, there was a man-made savannah. A rainforest. A farm. An ocean with tropical coral ...
06.27.2019 Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements of which exist today. The Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin features designs that specifically evoke the Third Reich. Following the end of World War II, ...
06.20.2019 Oneida: Utopia, LLC The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise could be found on Earth through nontraditional sexual and familial structures, including complex marriages and communal childraising. ...
06.13.2019 Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first opportunity at home ownership, but typically excluded African Americans. While William Levitt used explicit racial covenants and other tactics to keep his famed Levittown developments ...
06.06.2019 Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to design the city of Chandigarh, to signal India’s rise on the world stage. But the city’s architecture and design has ...
05.30.2019 Jamestown: Utopia for Whom Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, and especially from the 1995 Disney animated film. A gripping recounting of the true story of how ...
05.23.2019 The themes behind Utopian We’re working hard to bring you the first episode of Nice Try next week - it drops May 30th! In the meantime, we wanted to tell you a little more about the themes underpinning this first season, Utopian.
05.04.2019 Introducing: Utopian Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perpetual search for the perfect place, ...

Nice Try!

What's Nice Try! about?

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Nice Try! episodes:

The Vacuum

The Doorbell

Season 2: Interior

Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble

Avery shares Optimism from the Cut

Disney World: Celebrating Utopia

Herland: Reimagine Utopia

Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia

Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia

Oneida: Utopia, LLC

Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard

Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia

Jamestown: Utopia for Whom

The themes behind Utopian

Introducing: Utopian

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