[UA] Re: London (was American attitudes and things)

[Simon RJB]

--- Mike Lake <mdlake at well.com> wrote:


>     We took a 9-day London trip a few years ago, and
> felt no culture shock 
> at all.  The strongest impression I came away with
> was a reminder that 
> London is a living city, and not so dependent on
> tourism that it's pickled 
> itself into a huge museum.


I've always thought of London as a living city.
British cities always look more organic than the grid
systems of most American cities, and if you ever see
sped up footage of traffic moving through London, the
flow stopping and starting, it's like valves opening
and closing, vehicles being pumped around is heart.
It's the sort of city Urbanmancers could really relate
to.

That's sort of reawakened my interest in doing a
UK-based campaign. One of the things that has struck
me about the recent American Theme mailings is that
there's always been an obvious underlying theme
throughout the Unknown Armies products, sometimes
subtle, sometimes not very subtle at all, but the
character and personality of America is very present.
That's in no way a bad thing - in many ways its
allowed me a look into American culture in ways I've
never really had the opportunity to before. But it
would be interesting to see how such themes might
translate into another setting.

Perhaps London is too cosmolitan in itself to offer a
completely different perspective, but an UA take on
the UK would be fun to do.



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