“Chávez Ravine” - movie with roundtable discussion

We watched a movie called “Chávez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story”, by Jordan Mechner 2004 (26 minutes). A documentary about the politics and economics of land in the United States, based on the story of a Mexican American village destroyed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium. The filmmaker explores what happened through interviewing both the official who were involved in the process deconstruction of the community and the former residents of Chávez Ravine.

Afterwards, we opened a roundtable discussion about the movie and related topics to landscape.