Marcel Duchamp 'The Fountain' 1917

That grid mr master codemaker is the playground. Pac-Melbourne has us running through the laneways.
The ghosts of the laneways however have their own complex gameplay from the current social negotiations to a rich history of play. Be it two-up parlours with their rules and reason or the role-play of those who sought adventure in the city’s hidden zones -those Victorians who in the 19th century lifted the skirts of Marvellous Melbourne to hide under Madame Brussels skirts.
The most simple way to make a playground is to name it so. The way a urinal can become a fountain.
But what really makes a playground is the community. We are homo ludens.
The systemic nature of play, the defining spaces and rules -we made all those and we can make new ones my dear codemaster and urbanist chums. Do you not fear that you will become irrelevant as the players change the rules and leave you two crusty umpires behind arguing amongst yourselves?