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Model Cities, 2018
A collaborative installation and happening by Robby Herbst and Kimberly Varella
Automata
504 Chung King Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90012
December 8, 2018–January 13, 2019
Model Cities represents a history of the federal government's Great Societies, anti-poverty program known as Model Cities (1969–1974). This American program, now largely forgotten, paid federal dollars for experimental community-initiated projects, with the goal of alleviating economic, social, and spacial issues in 150 disenfranchised urban areas.
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Photography by Ian Byers-Gamber