How Urban Planning Created Hip-Hop

I know what you’re thinking right, ‘Alex, you is cray!’, and you could be right, but you must also be thinking ‘Hey Maybe planning does have some street cred’. 

This story begins in the most unlikely of places, not the South Bronx Projects but in 1920s Paris. The true godfather of hip-hop monsieur Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known by his street name as Le Corbusier. The first of his grand urban releases was the Ville Contemporaine in 1922, which like many of the early hip-hop artists, caused a great amount of controversy. Now what does he have to do with hip-hop you ask?

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Many town planning schemes ago during the post war suburbanism era there lived a little magazine called Connections. Connections lived a transient lifestyle always covering news across the the nation. Then one day, connections began shopping along Colin's Street in Melbourne, Loui Vuitton, Prada, Armani, Versace, nothing was out of it's reach. Thus began New Urbanism, but even with all the beauty in the world there was something missing. Then, in the summer of 2013, Connections came up with a marvelous idea! A blog it cried! I shall upload myself to the internet for ease of access and to stay ahead of the news, and this is where we are now folks, Superbanism!

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