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Gerry Shih
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FROM Gerry Shih
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Business of Airbnb Angelenos aren’t the only ones concerned with the proliferation of Airbnb rentals. Cities and neighborhoods all over the country are grappling with how to deal with this new kind of business model. Meanwhile, the 6 year old company continues to grow. Airbnb is currently raising capital at a valuation of more than $10 billion.
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Design and Architecture
Rethinking mobility with “Flipping the Bird!” design jam Love ‘em or hate ‘em, dockless e-scooters have disrupted the cities they land in. Can "game thinking" help us think more creatively, and less reactively, about their potential? That’s the question at the heart of an event this Saturday at noon called "Flipping the Bird!" It’s a collaboration between KCRW, DnA and IndieCade, the international festival of independent games.
Art Talk
Striking Stage Design Worthy of a Museum Show Edward Goldman talks about art exhibitions and set designs from Pasadena to Palm Springs.
Scheer Intelligence
NAFTA 2.0, Trump Got It Right? Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and a 25-year veteran of congressional trade battles, discusses NAFTA 2.0, the Trump Administration’s newly negotiated trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States that, improbable as it may seem, could actually give Mexican workers a living wage and end corporate control of trade courts.