{"id":2311,"date":"2014-07-09T02:40:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2014-07-09T02:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:40:04","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e45-a-state-apart-with-jon-christensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E45: A State Apart with Jon Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jon-Christensen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2312\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jon-Christensen.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Christensen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jon-Christensen.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jon-Christensen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Colin Marshall sits down at UCLA with Jon Christensen, editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomcalifornia.com\/\"><em>Boom: A Journal of California<\/em><\/a>, the recently re-launched magazine from the University of California Press. They discuss the meaning, if any, of the phrase &#8220;he lives in California&#8221; in an author bio; whether California&#8217;s east-west divide bleaches out its much discussed north-south one; why we think so little about water, and whether Los Angeles actually has a problem with the stuff; how to see the world not just in this city, but in the whole of California;\u00a0<em>Boom<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomcalifornia.com\/2014\/06\/summer-2014\/\">&#8220;What&#8217;s the Matter with San Francisco?&#8221;<\/a> issue; when a city&#8217;s insecurity becomes useful; the axiomatic &#8220;brokenness&#8221; of Los Angeles, but the frequent elusiveness of that alleged brokenness; why Californians feel so pessimistic about high-speed rail; why it has become so difficult to sell the future to Californians, and indeed Americans; the changing idea of the role of the state, and what that would mean if California became its own country; the peripatetic life that led him to jump into Los Angeles, &#8220;the ne plus ultra of global cities&#8221;; why the true dream of the Southern Californian megalopolis feels so long deferred; how he chose Venice as a place to live, and whether it can remain weird; and whether California could use twice as many people \u2014 especially twice as many urban people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E45_Jon_Christensen.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at UCLA with Jon Christensen, editor of\u00a0Boom: A Journal of California, the recently re-launched magazine from the University of California Press. They discuss the meaning, if any, of the phrase &#8220;he lives in California&#8221; in an author bio; whether California&#8217;s east-west divide bleaches out its much discussed north-south one; why we [&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-2311","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\/2311","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=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}