{"id":1277,"date":"2013-01-25T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2013-01-25T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:38:27","slug":"monocle-magazine-interviews-me-about-misunderstood-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Monocle magazine interviews me about misunderstood Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Monocle 24\" src=\"http:\/\/a2.mzstatic.com\/us\/r1000\/107\/Purple\/v4\/25\/49\/83\/254983a8-1133-0c14-34da-c787e3119f15\/mzl.yafghtcb.175x175-75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/>You may remember my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2012\/12\/30\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-urbanist\">Podthought<\/a> on <em>Monocle<\/em>\u00a0magazine&#8217;s podcast <em><a href=\"http:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/the-urbanist\/\">The Urbanist<\/a>. <\/em>For their most recent episode on hometowns, they invited me on for a conversation about Los Angeles, my &#8220;adopted hometown,&#8221; with <em>Monocle<\/em>&#8216;s editor Andrew Tuck. We talk about why Los Angeles doesn&#8217;t tend to rank on livability charts, why Europeans have trouble interfacing with the city, what that slogan about Los Angeles being &#8220;a world in itself&#8221; gets right, and whether people still tend to turn &#8220;L.A.&#8221; upon moving here. The segment begins at 22:27.<\/p>\n<p>My other recent appearances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastsquared.com\/2012\/12\/20\/podcast-squared-145-colin-marshall\/\">Interview<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<em>Podcast Squared<\/em>, and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastsquared.com\/2012\/12\/10\/podcast-squared-142-daves-revenge\/\">review<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=937\">11 Points Countdown<\/a><\/em>\u00a0with Sam Greenspan, on underwhelming United States landmarks<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=716\">11 Points Countdown<\/a><\/em>\u00a0with Sam Greenspan, on the benefits of high gas prices<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/auteurcast.com\/2012\/05\/22\/episode-101-stanley-kubricks-a-clockwork-orange\/\">The Auteurcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>with Rudie Obias and West Anthony on Stanley Kubrick\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreadaily.com\/news\/read.asp?art_id=1389714\">\uc911\uc559\uc77c\ubcf4<\/a>\u00a0interview (Korean-language)<\/li>\n<li>Second, three-hour appearance on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktowntonight.com\/k-town-tonight-036-the-one-thats-actually-about-k-town\"><em>K-Town Tonight<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Mike Kim<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/battleshippretension.com\/?p=6739\">Battleship Pretension<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>with Tyler Smith and David Bax: a three-hour course in the nineties\u2019 \u201cIndiewood\u201d movement<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.criterioncast.com\/post\/13582786349\/episode-107-jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce\">The Criterioncast<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on Chantal Akerman\u2019s\u00a0<em>Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/criterioncast.com\/2010\/01\/31\/the-criterioncast-episode-022-taste-of-cherry-criterion-collection-045\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Criterioncast<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Abbas Kiarostami\u2019s\u00a0<em>Taste of Cherry<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/giopodcast.com\/2011\/09\/18\/g-i-o-get-it-on-episode-86\/\"><em>G.I.O Get It On<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Giovanni Giorgio the third time<\/li>\n<li><em>G.I.O Get It On<\/em>\u00a0with Giovanni Giorgio the second time (can\u2019t find this one, for some reason)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/giopodcast.com\/2010\/10\/15\/g-i-o-get-it-on-episode-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>G.I.O. Get It On<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Giovanni Giorgio<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktowntonight.com\/k-town-tonight-012-yellow-boyz-a-white-boy\"><em>K-Town Tonight<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Radio Korea with Mike and Elli<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/26812813\"><em>The Creative Community<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Channel 21 with David Starkey<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/RadioCausewayColinMarshallWriterdirectorOrObserver-Aug172010\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Radio Causeway<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on KCSB with Tim Grigsby and Pav Aulakh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/5089620\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Think Different TV<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Ben Casnocha<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2011\/05\/16\/interviews\/michael-schapira\/colin-marshall\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Full-Stop.net<\/a>\u00a0with Michael Schapira<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsodrome.com\/social_media_news\/interview-with-colin-marshall-of-marketplace-of-ideas-18504223\" rel=\"nofollow\">Broadcasting Brain<\/a>\u00a0with Mark Dykeman (this might not be on the net anymore)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blubrry.com\/pydkpodcast\/495269\/episode-30-ideas-people\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The People You Don\u2019t Know<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Eugene Ahn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember my Podthought on Monocle\u00a0magazine&#8217;s podcast The Urbanist. For their most recent episode on hometowns, they invited me on for a conversation about Los Angeles, my &#8220;adopted hometown,&#8221; with Monocle&#8216;s editor Andrew Tuck. We talk about why Los Angeles doesn&#8217;t tend to rank on livability charts, why Europeans have trouble interfacing with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}