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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Making L.A.: The Built Environment

    One hundred years ago, Los Angeles was barely a city at all. Over the last century, it has blown up into a giant metropolis. And during all this rapid growth, L.A. has continued to struggle with an inferiority complex, questioning its own identity and place in the world. Are we a world-class city?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 17, 2015 • 1 min read

    One hundred years ago, Los Angeles was barely a city at all. Over the last century, it has blown up into a giant metropolis. And during all this rapid growth, L.A. has continued to struggle with an inferiority complex, questioning its own identity and place in the world. Are we a world-class city? Can we match those older and more sophisticated cities of the Northeast? Do we have great cultural institutions? We tackle some of these questions and more in our new series, Making L.A., which will examine how we can make L.A. more liveable. This is part one.

    Steve Devol

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    L.A.'s Homeless Encampments, 'Making L.A.' and the Powerbrokers of Art Basel
    1. 0:00L.A. Tries a New Tactic for Homeless Encampments
    2. 11:52Making L.A.: The Built EnvironmentYou’re reading this
    3. 27:27Hope Solo and Domestic Violence
    4. 38:03The Power Brokers of Art Basel
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Christopher Hawthorne

      Chief Design Officer, Mayor's Office, City of Los Angeles; former architecture critic at the Los Angeles Times

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      Dana Cuff

      director of cityLAB at UCLA

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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    L.A.'s Homeless Encampments, 'Making L.A.' and the Powerbrokers of Art Basel
    1. 0:00L.A. Tries a New Tactic for Homeless Encampments
    2. 11:52Making L.A.: The Built EnvironmentYou’re reading this
    3. 27:27Hope Solo and Domestic Violence
    4. 38:03The Power Brokers of Art Basel
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand