{"id":436,"date":"2009-11-25T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/25\/article-in-second-nature-journal-about-the-mobile-city-project-and-urban-gaming\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:44:16","slug":"article-in-second-nature-journal-about-the-mobile-city-project-and-urban-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/25\/article-in-second-nature-journal-about-the-mobile-city-project-and-urban-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Article in Second Nature journal about The Mobile City project and urban gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second issue of the RMIT journal <a href=\"http:\/\/secondnature.rmit.edu.au\/index.php\/2ndnature\">Second Nature<\/a> is about &#8220;Games, Locative &amp; Mobile Media&#8221;. I wrote a short article about urban games and their importance for the issues we address with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themobilecity.nl\/\">The Mobile City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this article I discern five possible &#8216;levels&#8217; to understand urban games: (1) the city is often used as a model to construct an architecture of computer and video games; (2) the city itself has historically been understood in multiple ways as a game or playground; (3) pervasive games take digital games out to the streets and bridge the digital-physical distinction; (4) (serious) games are used in the process of (re)building actual cities; (5) urban games are a metaphorical lens through which to look at utopian and dystopian futures of cities. For each of these &#8216;levels&#8217; I raise some relevant questions.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/secondnature.rmit.edu.au\/index.php\/2ndnature\/article\/view\/143\/43\">read the article here &gt;&gt;<\/a> or download a <a href=\"http:\/\/secondnature.rmit.edu.au\/pdf\/09lange.pdf\">PDF of the article<\/a> (1,6 MB).<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of other interesting contributions. See the journal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/secondnature.rmit.edu.au\/index.php\/2ndnature\/issue\/view\/4\/showToc\">table of contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secondnature.rmit.edu.au\/index.php\/2ndnature\/issue\/view\/4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/second_nature-cover_2.png\" alt=\"second_nature-cover_2.png\" width=\"442\" height=\"603\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second issue of the RMIT journal Second Nature is about &#8220;Games, Locative &amp; Mobile Media&#8221;. 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