{"id":1887,"date":"2013-10-16T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2013-10-16T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:53:15","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e8-mnl-lax-with-carren-jao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E8: MNL-LAX with Carren Jao"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in North Hollywood with Carren Jao<\/a>, Manila- and Los Angeles-based writer on architecture, art, and design. They discuss what rain does to the aesthetic of Los Angeles; the role of the river here as the connection people don’t realize they have; the difference between the floods Los Angeles used to routinely endure and the ones Manila routinely endures now; how, growing up in the Philippines, she got interested in the shape and form of cities; Manila’s “improvisational” nature not centered around always having functioning systems; the Filipino inclination to make guests’ lives easier in any way possible; her entry into the United States, but not the one that “everyone knows”; public transit as amusement-park ride; the important role of the Jeepney in Manila’s transportation; her life in the San Fernando Valley, very much a place distinct from Los Angeles itself; how writing has forced her to explore this city and its environs, including still-developing ones like Pacoima’s “mural mile”; how to get the wide-openness of the Los Angeles experience across to friends, family, and readers; the “third-world” contrasts of nice homes next to squatters’ villages in Manila and the Arts District next to Skid Row in Los Angeles; the boom in interest related to architecture, design, and space-making, and the importance of leaving openings for people to construct their own environments; what she’d look at first after five years away from Los Angeles, and from Manila; this city’s long-confused relationship with its water; what the Philippines have learned from other countries; what America could learn from the Asian sense of accommodation; what she learns from having to attend neighborhood council meetings; how fast word and social knowledge travel in Manila, how slow they can travel in Los Angeles, and how both have their advantages.<\/p>\n

Download the interview from\u00a0Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Janna Dotschkal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Marshall sits down in North Hollywood with Carren Jao, Manila- and Los Angeles-based writer on architecture, art, and design. They discuss what rain does to the aesthetic of Los Angeles; the role of the river here as the connection people don’t realize they have; the difference between the floods Los Angeles used to routinely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-manila","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}