Site Selection and Documentation: Seattle
City Space as Game Space
Seattle was chosen based on the fact that it is a younger city, about 150 years old. Because the city is still expanding and being developed there are many opportunities for remediation on current empty sites. Seattle is also a dynamic urban landscape because of the extreme change in elevation and two highways that divide the city in half.
START: Pioneer Square, the site of the first settlement in the city limits now known as Seattle, previously called New York Alki.
END: Seattle Center, the last portion of the city considered within the densely urban realm.
Distance between the two spaces when navigating sequence: 3.21 miles.
The path between these two 'ends' of the dense urban realm are often randomly navigated by tourists and Seattleites on foot; this path can be transformed by allowing empty lots and newer urban interventions to become game space, creating a link between the two most heavily visited extents of the city.
The sites range in size and shape, allowing different program sizes to be accommodated for.
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