ABSTRACT
Current societal changes signal that accelerated shifts stemming from the genesis of gaming is transforming the ways we design, interact and perceive the physical world around us. In asking Are Urban Planning Practices Generational Mindsets? this article seeks to expand on the growing studies that explore the mindset and expertise of seventy-five and a half million Americans presently at the cusp of entering this nation’s workforce. The thesis of the paper agues that millennials are surrogates of planners, a premise which can help to elucidate how gamification and data-driven processes challenge the quality and production of socio-spatial definitions as game theory forwards the urban planning processes of our time.
