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Week In Wine Recap (4:19)
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threatening vine disease, Bordeaux, leaf hopper, causes the slow destruction of vines, all vines carrying the disease must be uprooted, wind power, North Carolina, John Sweezy, 45 foot wind turbine, Long Island, North Fork, San Francisco Gate published an article stating top trends, top five trends include resurgence of retailers, sustainability, look out for bottles that weigh less, vine disease, Flavescence Doree, Whole Foods, Anaba Winery, Shinn Estates, Long Island Power Authority's Backyard Wind Initiative, San Francisco Gate, top five wine trends of 2010, Jon Bonne, Phylloxera,Gerry Schweitzer of Leblon Cachaca (29:10)
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Leblon, Brazil, distilleries, spirits, Brooklyn, Cognac, wine, Caipirinha, http://www.lebloncachaca.com, tequilla, vodka, gin, Cachaca, tequila was called Mexican whiskey, Cognac was called French brandy, Champagne was called French sparkling wine, Brazilian government, legalize Cachaca, sugar cane, applying Cognac methods to Cachaca, this produces great results, XO level Cognac barrels, putting Cachaca in wood gives it more nuance, Chardonnay with oak, cane yields, cane season is May to October, rainfall, P51, The Brazilian Institute of Cachaca, consumer response, www.legalizecachaca.com, noblve spirit, good mixer, Leblon Cachaca, Gerry Schweitzer, Gilles Merlet,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
The Beekman Tower (14:38)
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Hearst Ranch, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Cooper Square, Cooper Union, Roberta's, architecture and eloquence, The Beekman Tower, base structure that includes a school, silvery tower above, Holland, Utrecht, Nassau, building wrapped in metal, titanium, Frank Gehry, steel core, rentals, Hudson River, lower Manhattan, art deco buildings, voluptuous geometry,American Indian Aesthetic Sensibilities (14:44)
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the man made grid of New York, loss of spirituality, pueblos, the four corners, The Grand Canyon, American ruins, sustainable agriculture, Native Americans, community, resources, nomads, walls are rock, kiva, connection to dark underworld, solar pattern of daytime,Universidad Central de Venezuela (16:18)
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Universidad Central de Venezuela, Juan Carlos Villanueva, project housing, Lake Titicaca, veinte tres de enero project, gardening, temperate, government projects, society must take it upon themselves, unwanted gifts are a terrible idea, economically elitist, social contract, Gehry building at MIT, mountains as a restriction, big projects that wipe out an indigenous form of building, there are some things you simply can't do as an architect, modernist shtick: we through construction can change the world, mega, structures, Caracas,Stuyvesant Town & City Planning (15:41)
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Stuyvesant Town, City Planning, affordable housing, plots, post war development, Peter Cooper Village, Little Italy, monotonous brick, Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, FDR Drive, West Side Highway, Southern State Parkway, planning on the urban scale, Mulberry St., ghost town, winding paths, density and landscape, the tower in the park, Jacob Riise Housing, landscape architects, Battery Park City, in developing Stu Town families churches and schools were destroyed,Download MP3 (Full Episode)









