Design and Architecture
Cuban architecture, Lewis MacAdams
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.
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenPhoto: Neon returns to Havana (Vern Evans, Havana Light Tour)
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2 storiesCastro 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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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 destructive and deadly floods.
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