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    Design and Architecture

    Smart nodes, CAFAM goes to the border, Crenshaw Cowboy

    DnA goes to check out CAFAM’s timely show of art and architecture, The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility -- and on the way encounters the installation of LA’s pilot "smart node." Will the streetlight of the future contain cameras, charging stations, speakers and sensors to detect gunshots? And we meet the homeless artist whose Los Angeles studio was a freeway on-ramp, until he was moved on.

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    By Frances Anderton • Sep 26, 2017 • 28m Listen

    Photo: Ana Serrano's "Cartonlandia" (2007) at CAFAM's exhibition The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility (Avishay Artsy)

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:00

      Goodbye street lights, hello 'smart nodes'

      Workers install a "smart node" on Wilshire Boulevard. It's part of a pilot project led by the City of LA's Bureau of Street Services.

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      11 min
    2. 10:58

      CAFAM goes to the border

      "The Wall: A Border Game" by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, at CAFAM's exhibition "The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility."

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      9 min
    3. 19:54

      What happened to the Crenshaw Cowboy?

      Lovell Moore, the "Crenshaw Cowboy," on board one of his sculptures.

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      8 min
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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

      Culture

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:0011 min

      Goodbye street lights, hello 'smart nodes'

    2. 10:589 min

      CAFAM goes to the border

    3. 19:548 min

      What happened to the Crenshaw Cowboy?

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