The Delights and Disappointments of the Creative City

May 2017

Interview of our Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow Charles Landry by Marc Pachter, former Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and Museum of American History. The interview took part in the context of the event Delights & Disappointments of the Creative City at the Berlin Representative Office of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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