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Anthony Tung: Preserving the World's Great Cities
Listen | Part 1, Venice
Listen | Part 2, Warsaw

Anthony Tung as been a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissioner, an instructor on architectural history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a visiting professor on international urban preservation at MIT. He has lectured around the world on historic preservation. Preserving the World's Great Cities (Three Rivers Press, 2001) is a detailed socio-cultural portrait of preservation efforts in eighteen cities across the globe and throughout history. He was recently invited by the Louisiana Landmarks Society to speak in New Orleans. Excerpted from that lecture are Anthony Tung's comments on the rebuilding of Venice after the 1966 flood, and Warsaw, after it was leveled by the Nazis in WWII.

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Louisiana Landmarks Society

Announcements:

Greek Fest NOLA
Holy Trinity Cathedral
1200 Robert E. Lee Blvd.
Saturday, May 26 — 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, May 27 — 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM

Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo

The 2nd Annual Bayou Boogaloo
Saturday, May 26

New Orleans String Project Crawfish Boil
Saturday, May 26, 12-5
Burke Park (Annunciation between 2nd and 3rd Streets)

Music Played:

Pete Seeger, "Army Life," American Favorite Ballads, 4, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2006.

John Fahey, "Amazing Grace."