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    Design and Architecture

    Never Built: Elysian Park

    KCRW’s Matt Holzman has been going behind the scenes to report on some of the projects in the exhibit and why they never got built. One was a huge housing project designed by Austrian émigré Richard Neutra, that was intended for Elysian Park and is now the site of Dodger Stadium.

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

    KCRW’s Matt Holzman has been going behind the scenes to report on some of the projects in the exhibit and why they never got built. One was a huge housing project designed by Austrian émigré Richard Neutra, that was intended for Elysian Park and is now the site of Dodger Stadium. He tells the story of how red-baiting, unfamiliar accents and fears of a community being destroyed conspired to defeat an ideal of decent public housing.

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    A New Twist on Tie Dye; Never Built
    1. 0:52LA Designer: Jennifer Parry Dodge
    2. 14:52Never Built: Elysian ParkYou’re reading this
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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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    The full episode

    2 of 2
    A New Twist on Tie Dye; Never Built
    1. 0:52LA Designer: Jennifer Parry Dodge
    2. 14:52Never Built: Elysian ParkYou’re reading this
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