Download the full report PDF (35 pages, 13 MB).  Or see the project overview, list of cities, discussion articles, press release, and more!

Citation suggestion: Stokes, Benjamin, Dols, Samantha, and Hill, Aubrey. (2018). “Cities Remix a Playful Platform: Prominent Experiments to Embed Pokémon GO, from Open Streets to Neighborhood Libraries.” American University in Washington, DC. Retrieved from https://playfulcity.net/go/pokemon-report/

Contents of the PDF:

1. Introduction
2. Provocations on the future of cities (x5)
3. Summary of City Experiments
4. Three models
   1. Model 1: Open Streets (from San Jose to Philadelphia)
      1. Aligning game locations
      2. Glocal maps
      3. Economic battles
      4. Shifting the demographics
      5. High contrast: Philly Free Streets
      6. Scavenger hunt (meta-game)
      7. Self-mobilizing groups
   2. Model 2: Persistent neighborhood routes and tours (Philadelphia libraries)
   3. Model 3: Sharing power to negotiate the data layer (Boston)
      1. Youth voice and a Boston rewrite
5. Conclusions
6. References

 

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