{"id":1441,"date":"2013-03-31T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2013-03-31T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T01:08:56","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e19-nothing-works-everything-moves-with-juan-carlos-cano-and-paloma-vera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E19: Nothing Works, Everything Moves with Juan Carlos Cano and Paloma Vera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1442\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"canovera\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/canovera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"113\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City&#8217;s Colonia Condesa with Juan Carlos Cano and Paloma Vera, founders of the architecture and urbanism practice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canovera.com\/\">CANO | VERA<\/a>. They discuss how everything in Mexico City&#8217;s built environment exists &#8220;behind,&#8221; being interesting in irregular ways; all the untrue superlatives you hear growing up about how Mexico City is the biggest in the world, and what an abstract concept &#8220;the biggest city&#8221; turns out to be anyway; the miracle of Mexico City&#8217;s continued improvisational operation, especially as regards garbage collection; the amount of architect-less building going on in Mexico City, and what they&#8217;re doing to help make it easier and more efficient; the creation of cities through the creation of connections, rather than through the building of beautiful things; where best to walk in the giant souffl\u00e9 that is Mexico City; the intrinsic sense that Mumbai, Bangkok, or S\u00e3o Paulo make when you come from Mexico City, and how you feel at\u00a0 home when you have to discover, anonymously, what a place is about; the meaning of Condominio Insurgentes to the urban environment, and the question of who built the thing in the first place; the city as a mirror of society&#8217;s favorite ideas in one particular moment; the contradictory image of Mexico as a place where nothing works, but everything moves; the historical Mexican relationship to space as it appears both in Teotihuacan and Ciudad Universitaria, in pre-Hispanic markets and downtown today; how Mexico City grew and ego; and the Z\u00f3calo, the best place in town to both feel and fill the void.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e19-nothing-works-everything-moves-with-juan-carlos-cano-and-paloma-vera\"><em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City&#8217;s Colonia Condesa with Juan Carlos Cano and Paloma Vera, founders of the architecture and urbanism practice CANO | VERA. They discuss how everything in Mexico City&#8217;s built environment exists &#8220;behind,&#8221; being interesting in irregular ways; all the untrue superlatives you hear growing up about how Mexico City is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico-city","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","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=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}