Infographic: A Map Of New York's Hip-Hop Heritage

Yo yo! Listen up! P to the L to the A to the double N - ING. (Yes I am too fly for a white guy)

Following on from the popular post on how planning created hip-hop, I thought I'd share an inforgraphic that you may rekonize (see told I'm cool). Word out.

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?