{"id":1940,"date":"2013-11-15T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2013-11-15T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:18:02","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e12-put-a-little-salt-on-it-with-tim-halbur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E12: Put a Little Salt on It with Tim Halbur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1941\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"halburlive\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/halburlive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/halburlive.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/halburlive-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down before a live audience at the New Urbanism Film Festival at Los Angeles&#8217; ACME Theater with Tim Halbur, Director of Communications at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnu.org\">Congress for the New Urbanism<\/a>, former Managing Editor at Planetizen, creator of the two-disc DVD set <em>The Story of Sprawl<\/em>, and author of the children&#8217;s urban planning book <em>Where Things Are from Near to Far<\/em>. They discuss the anti-Los Angeles indoctrination he received in San Francisco, and what that indoctrination might have had right; the two &#8220;nodes&#8221; of Hollywood and the beach that outsiders tend to recognize in Los Angeles, and why people claim to live here even when they live thirty miles away; why cities actually build for the car aren&#8217;t as often derided as &#8220;built for the car&#8221;; the hard-to-place unease we grew up with in the suburbs; his past producing museum audio tours, and how he would produce an audio tour of Los Angeles that navigates by subcultures; whether Los Angeles is too big, and what it means that we continually try to define and connect it all; what the Congress for the New Urbanism does, and how it addresses the way we once &#8220;carved out&#8221; our cities for parking lots and freeways; the Jetsonian vision of the future that carried us away after the Second World War; what Disneyland gets right about urbanism; the constant change that defines a living city, and San Francisco&#8217;s unhappy experience trying to halt it; the <em>Beverly Hills 90210 <\/em>model of denser-than-suburbia living he found in Los Angeles;\u00a0his weekly commute to the CNU in Chicago, and what he learns from living in these two quite different cities at once; how he&#8217;d like to see Los Angeles change in the next ten years; how <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=613\">Eric Brightwell<\/a>&#8216;s neighborhood maps surprise people, and what that means for neighborhood awareness; and the importance of &#8220;theming&#8221; urban places.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E12_Tim_Halbur.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/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 before a live audience at the New Urbanism Film Festival at Los Angeles&#8217; ACME Theater with Tim Halbur, Director of Communications at the Congress for the New Urbanism, former Managing Editor at Planetizen, creator of the two-disc DVD set The Story of Sprawl, and author of the children&#8217;s urban planning book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","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=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}