
^ Barcelona’s Cerda Grid (from http://odin.let.rug.nl/~kastud/barca/)
What makes a good game city?
I mean this in the sense that it makes for a great physical setting for playing a game such as ‘Gridlockd’ in. Which cities are good game cities? How would you construct an ideal game city?
Is a great city for playing a game in, the same as a great city for playing in?
What is a playful city?
[…] Update: Matt Jones got a similar inspiration after reading Kevin Kelly (Here 2.0: Big Here, Little Screen). In a post on Game Cities (Is a great city for playing a game in, the same as a great city for playing in?) he points to a the Barcelona’s Cerda Grid (1859 – 1900). […]