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    Design and Architecture

    How Will Architecture Respond to Drought?

    The state of California is severely short of water. Yet it coincides with yet another building boom. Can the Southland keep on growing if drought is the new normal?

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    By Frances Anderton • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    The state of California is severely short of water. Yet it coincides with yet another building boom. Can the Southland keep on growing if drought is the new normal?

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    Can the Southland Grow in an Age of Drought?
    1. 0:42How Will Architecture Respond to Drought? You’re reading this
    2. 12:57Dave Hickey
    3. 22:15Carthay Square, HPOZs and an Effort to Preserve a Neighborhood
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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Caroline Chamberlain

      KUOW

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      Gideon Brower

      Independent Producer

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      Hadley Arnold

      Arid Lands

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      Peter Arnold

      Arid Lands

      Culture

    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Can the Southland Grow in an Age of Drought?
    1. 0:42How Will Architecture Respond to Drought? You’re reading this
    2. 12:57Dave Hickey
    3. 22:15Carthay Square, HPOZs and an Effort to Preserve a Neighborhood
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