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03.23.18

Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand | Audio

Episode 77: Cape to California

“Cities are great places in which to experiment and to try to use design to affect human life — it’s the right kind of scale,” Michael says in a conversation about Cape Town, where Jessica traveled with students to study the severe water shortage, and Los Angeles, which named L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne as its first chief design officer.

Also mentioned this week:

Hawthorne, Why I’m Leaving the LA Times for City Hall
Hawthorne interviews with Curbed, City Lab
Lubalin 100
Water Dorwin Teague, Design This Day

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