Urban Planning = Brand Planning
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Feb/2008
Below is the Pecha Kucha presentation I gave at Hall & Partners about remix culture via urban planning. Before my ohso illustrious career in adfilms, I did greenspace planning with the NYC Parks department and field work in a slew of cities round the globe. One thing planners have learned is that people have an innate need to remix and customize any urban system or grid that they encounter. Rules will be broken, it’s not about ‘if’, it’s ‘when & how’. See below Jason Lewis’s pics of skaters, parking garages and rollerrinks. Or take a look at HBO’s The Wire. Both engage in this dance of spatial rules and regulations…and are far more artfully executed than my YouTubed musings.
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4/6/08: Here is a great parsing of above clip’s Radiohead example in this Influx Insights post
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4/12/08: More about brand malleability + Nintendo’s Wii from them smrt left coasters.
Comments:
February 25th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
ahaaa. I’ve been wanting to go to a Pecha Kucha for two years. It’s about time I did!
March 6th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Loved this presentation! Delighted to see the current work of an IHP alum who studied cities in India, South Africa and Brazil.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
[…] Season 4 of The Wire just dropped on DVD, so this weekend I was glued to the telly and composing armchair academic essays about the structure of this B’more world. Then I read media scholar Jason Mittel’s writing about the show, and decided best just to step aside and give him the mic. Here is some of what he’s got to say: […]
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