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Design and Architecture

Cuban architecture, Lewis MacAdams

Hosted by Frances Anderton Nov. 29, 2016
Fidel Castro is dead. What might his passing mean for the historic city of Havana, where development was stalled for almost 60 years? Lewis MacAdams, poet-activist, passes on the torch at Friends of the LA River. We discuss the future of the LA river with MacAdams and FOLAR's new Executive Director, Marissa Christiansen.

Photo: Neon returns to Havana (Vern Evans, Havana Light Tour)

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Castro and Cuban architecture

During Fidel Castro's decades-long control of Cuba, development in Havana was largely stalled, leaving a historic city intact but in disrepair.

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Filling the shoes of Lewis MacAdams

When engineers in the late 1930s conceived the idea of encasing a 51-mile sprawling waterway in concrete it made sense -- two massive storms had just caused highly...

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Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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