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    Design and Architecture

    Uber moves into Times-Mirror Square

    The Los Angeles Times building Photo by Jim Winstead Jr.

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    By Frances Anderton • May 9, 2017 • 1 min read

    The Los Angeles Times building

    Photo by Jim Winstead Jr.

    If you wanted to name a company that was inextricable from the growth of downtown Los Angeles in the last century it would be the Los Angeles Times and the powerful Chandler family. If you wanted to name a company central to the future of LA it might be a ride-sharing company, like Uber. So what is one to think on hearing that Uber has taken up office space in one of the LA Times' buildings -- and that the LA Times might itself eventually leave the complex? Jon Regardie talks about the surge of tech companies in DTLA and what it all means for the Civic Center.

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    Uber at the LA Times, Preserving LA, 'The Handmaid's Tale'
    1. 0:00Uber moves into Times-Mirror SquareYou’re reading this
    2. 4:50A case of preservation gone too far?
    3. 16:36Oppressive designs: Fashion in 'The Handmaid's Tale'
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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

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      Jon Regardie

      a city politics journalist at LA Magazine

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Uber at the LA Times, Preserving LA, 'The Handmaid's Tale'
    1. 0:00Uber moves into Times-Mirror SquareYou’re reading this
    2. 4:50A case of preservation gone too far?
    3. 16:36Oppressive designs: Fashion in 'The Handmaid's Tale'
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