The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2009 - Building out of the Recession - part two

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Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started just weeks after the Wall Street Crash, giving Americans hope in times of depression. Jonathan Glancey, architecture correspondent for the Guardian newspaper in London, looks at the economic and social policies of the 1930s and the parallels we can find today.

Published on Friday, 25th September 2009.

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