{"id":2081,"date":"2014-02-18T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T01:10:14","slug":"a-los-angeles-primer-lincoln-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles Primer: Lincoln Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Lincoln Blvd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/assets_c\/2014\/02\/lincoln%20blvd%203-thumb-630x470-68883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deep into my exploration of Los Angeles, I took my first trip to London, a city whose built environment one assumes contrasts in the starkest, least flattering way against that of the city I came from. A classic London architectural tour would take you past all the city&#8217;s least Los Angelinian aspects: Edwardian buildings lining the Thames, Big Ben, the glories of the neo-Gothic. Eschewing this pathway, I instead wandered without aim into the areas least in line with London&#8217;s self-image, all the while reflecting upon the many conversations I&#8217;ve had with Brits who&#8217;d left this native land of theirs, made a beeline for Los Angeles, and proceeded to enjoy their subsequent absence of regrets. Everyone cites writers like Christopher Isherwood and artists like David Hockney as this movement&#8217;s visionaries, and I still find the freshest perspectives of the city from their countless spiritual descendants, even if they&#8217;ve lived in Los Angeles a dozen times as long as I have.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll mostly find them in the coastal northwest around Santa Monica, which seems well on its way to spearheading a new generation of British colonies. I rode out there one day to talk with Bath-born architecture and design journalist and broadcaster Frances Anderton\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=832\">on my podcast\u00a0<em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em><\/a>. Having grown up in a town known for its preservation of the image of one particular, long-gone England, Anderton found in Los Angeles an escape, as many of her countrymen do, from &#8220;the crushing burden of history.&#8221; And to the city&#8217;s ahistorical, untraditional aesthetic tendencies she credits not just the reflection of a kind of freedom, but the production of a kind of beauty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/a-los-angeles-primer\/a-los-angeles-primer-lincoln-boulevard.html\">KCET Departures<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep into my exploration of Los Angeles, I took my first trip to London, a city whose built environment one assumes contrasts in the starkest, least flattering way against that of the city I came from. A classic London architectural tour would take you past all the city&#8217;s least Los Angelinian aspects: Edwardian buildings lining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-los-angeles-primer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}