AD-3303 (Place, Culture, And Identity)

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This report is for AD-3303(Place, Culture and Identity ). This report provides a brief overview of the game(Pokemon Go) and it’s aliases(location-based games). It investigate how an urban space have been used prior to its emergence. It shows how a sub culture can shape or transform the spaces that they used. The report uses Lefebvre’s conceptual triad as a baseline in order to explain the fundamentals of spaces and its social implication that arise from it. With this approach, we hope to address the social and spatial dynamics of Pokemon Go in Bandar Seri Begawan as well as how the game have affected the place and identity of certain places.

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