{"id":1558,"date":"2013-05-23T23:54:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T06:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2013-05-23T23:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T06:54:32","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e27-no-mo-po-mo-with-paul-delany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E27: No Mo&#8217; Po-Mo with Paul Delany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1559\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"pauldelany\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pauldelany.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"250\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Yaletown, Vancouver, British Columbia with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/delany\/\">Paul Delany<\/a>, professor of English at Simon Fraser University, editor of the reader\u00a0<em>Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City<\/em>, and\u00a0author of the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverreview.com\/past_articles\/graveyard.htm\">Vancouver: Graveyard of Ambition?<\/a>&#8221; They discuss whether it makes sense to talk about a &#8220;postmodern&#8221; city in 2013; the influence of Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, and Jeff Wall; Vancouver&#8217;s future-oriented open-endedness; his path to Vancouver from England via the United States and specifically a crumbling New York; the state of Vancouver in 1970, when he arrived; how the West End became dense in the fifties, and how Yaletown evolved; English literature&#8217;s interest in the phenomenon of the modern city, and his own; the city as a nexus of fascinations; his disappointment in Vancouver&#8217;s architectural development and its lack of internationalism, save for buildings like the downtown library, the unofficial campus for the city&#8217;s many foreign language students; all the condo towers as Ballardian &#8220;prisons with the locks on the inside&#8221;; Microsoft&#8217;s aborted entry into Vancouver&#8217;s suburbs and its subsequent relocation to downtown; what led him to ask whether Vancouver made for a graveyard of ambition; the importance of getting outside Vancouver, and regularly; the lack of a fruitful intellectual model to replace postmodernism as a means of viewing Vancouver; and how the city&#8217;s large and growing Asian presence prepares it for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e27-no-mo-po-mo-with-paul-delany\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e27-no-mo-po-mo-with-paul-delany\">\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 Yaletown, Vancouver, British Columbia with\u00a0Paul Delany, professor of English at Simon Fraser University, editor of the reader\u00a0Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City, and\u00a0author of the article &#8220;Vancouver: Graveyard of Ambition?&#8221; They discuss whether it makes sense to talk about a &#8220;postmodern&#8221; 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