Paul Delany's guest appearances

Paul Delany

Notebook on Cities and Culture

Kelly Cutrara

Dylan Reid

Elon Musk

Tom Hanks

Jordan Peterson

Tyler Cowen

Kamala Harris

Justin Bieber

Donald Trump

Tom McCarthy

Chris Guillebeau

Wayne Gretzky

Daniel Levin

Nick Drake

David Shields

Bernie Sanders

OwlTail

Kelly talks to Paul Delany, Global News Radio’s Expert in astronomy and space exploration.

Kelly talks to Paul Delany, Global News Radio’s Expert in astronomy and space exploration.

Paul Delany helps us find planets that will be viable with the naked eye this weekend

Colin Marshall sits down in Yaletown, Vancouver, British Columbia with Paul Delany, professor of English at Simon Fraser University, editor of the reader Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City, and author of the article "Vancouver: Graveyard of Ambition?" They discuss whether it makes sense to talk about a "postmodern" city in 2013; the influence of Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, and Jeff Wall; Vancouver'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's interest in the phenomenon of the modern city, and his own; the city as a nexus of fascinations; his disappointment in Vancouver's architectural development and its lack of internationalism, save for buildings like the downtown library, the unofficial campus for the city's many foreign language students; all the condo towers as Ballardian "prisons with the locks on the inside"; Microsoft's aborted entry into Vancouver'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's large and growing Asian presence prepares it for the future.

Colin Marshall sits down in Yaletown, Vancouver, British Columbia with <a href="http://www.sfu.ca/delany/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Delany</a>, professor of English at Simon Fraser University, editor of the reader Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City, and author of the article "<a href="http://www.vancouverreview.com/past_articles/graveyard.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vancouver: Graveyard of Ambition?</a>" They discuss whether it makes sense to talk about a "postmodern" city in 2013; the influence of Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, and Jeff Wall; Vancouver'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's interest in the phenomenon of the modern city, and his own; the city as a nexus of fascinations; his disappointment in Vancouver's architectural development and its lack of internationalism, save for buildings like the downtown library, the unofficial campus for the city's many foreign language students; all the condo towers as Ballardian "prisons with the locks on the inside"; Microsoft's aborted entry into Vancouver'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's large and growing Asian presence prepares it for the future.

S3E27: No Mo' Po-Mo with Paul Delany