Urban Blocks to City Blogs
Questions in follow up to the Article:
1: What role can museums play in defining social media, rather than just following the crowd. What can they do different than more commercial ventures?
2: 3 years after the initial survey, how have the statistics changed? Are the efforts towards people focused museum management actually paying off?
3: Shouldn’t the focus of museums be on making their exhibits more engaging rather than connecting better with people. Engaging exhibitions inherently connect with people. Kind of a case of “what came first, the chicken or the egg”.
Defining a Research Agenda for City Museums in a Peripheralizing World
I haven’t yet had a chance to go over this article.
Urban Icons
Questions in follow up:
1: Do Urban Icons mean more to the residents of the city or to the visitors? Does all of Portland want to be associated with the Fremont Bridge? Portlandia Statue? OHSU Tram?
2: Should Urban Icons be a goal of city planning?
3: Are Urban Icons that fall out of favor worth documenting in museums?
