{"id":15720,"date":"2012-11-23T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:03:53","slug":"urban-planet-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-north-koreas-skatepark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/11\/23\/urban-planet-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-north-koreas-skatepark\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Mission San Francisco de Asis, North Korea&#8217;s Skatepark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?attachment_id=34845\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mission\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mission.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/18\/urban-planet-how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths\/feature-urban-planet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1766 and completed in 1791, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missiondolores.org\/\">Mission San Francisco de As\u00eds<\/a> is feeling its age. The Mission is the oldest building in San Francisco, having survived two major earthquakes in the early 1900s. In the early &#8217;90s, the Mission underwent major conservation but the work is not complete. In an effort to preserve the mission, a company called CyArk has undertaken a field capture process to digitally document the Mission using terrestrial scanners. The 200 scans yielded by this process will allow for the creation for a variety of digital applications as well as architectural drawings to aid in rebuilding should the need occur. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2012\/11\/preparing-inevitable-digitally-preserving-san-franciscos-oldest-building\/3941\/\">The Atlantic Cities<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, North Korea, on your first skatepark. The park is part of the Ryugyong Health Complex, a part of leader Kim Jong-un&#8217;s new emphasis on physical culture. As film maker Patrik Wallner points out, this represents a real shift in the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic, &#8220;Skateboarding is very harmless in the eyes of the North Koreans, but it\u2019s not tolerated. They kept referring to it as &#8216;nonsense,&#8217; meaning skateboarding wasn&#8217;t accepted, and would be denied in most places, especially at any war memorials or statues of the Kims &#8212; places that have marble stairs, ledges, ramps, obstacles that are essential for skateboarding.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/posts\/shredding-the-dmz-north-korea-s-first-skatepark-as-cultural-barometer\/\">GOOD<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2012\/11\/preparing-inevitable-digitally-preserving-san-franciscos-oldest-building\/3941\/\">The Atlantic Cities<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>. Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. Founded in 1766 and completed in 1791, the Mission San Francisco de As\u00eds is feeling its age. The Mission<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/11\/23\/urban-planet-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-north-koreas-skatepark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Mission San Francisco de Asis, North Korea&#8217;s Skatepark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[7792,7794,514,7795,7797,1789,7796,7793,7790,353,7791,3536,222],"class_list":["post-15720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-congratulations","tag-digital-applications","tag-facebook","tag-film-maker","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-leader","tag-north-korea","tag-patrik-wallner","tag-ryugyong-health-complex","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-de-asis","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Mission San Francisco de Asis, North Korea&#039;s Skatepark - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/11\/23\/urban-planet-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-north-koreas-skatepark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Mission San Francisco de Asis, North Korea&#039;s Skatepark - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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