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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The Los Angeles Development Fight

    Now we look at the issues animating the development debate with the incoming campaign director for the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative and the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 3, 2016 • 1 min read

    Now we look at the issues animating the development debate with the incoming campaign director for the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative and the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. They assess whether Los Angeles is ready to live in a more urban city or whether it still wants the single-family homes and two- and three-story apartment buildings of yesteryear.

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    O.C. Jail Saga, Yahoo Collapse, and Hollywood Gentrification
    1. 0:29O.C. Jail Saga Continues
    2. 9:29Exonerations Report
    3. 19:50Yahoo's Downfall
    4. 27:47A Tale of Two Hollywoods
    5. 37:18The Los Angeles Development FightYou’re reading this
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, '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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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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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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      Jill Stewart

      executive director of the Coalition to Preserve LA

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    O.C. Jail Saga, Yahoo Collapse, and Hollywood Gentrification
    1. 0:29O.C. Jail Saga Continues
    2. 9:29Exonerations Report
    3. 19:50Yahoo's Downfall
    4. 27:47A Tale of Two Hollywoods
    5. 37:18The Los Angeles Development FightYou’re reading this
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