Can You Hear Me Now?

As a little side trip in our inquiry into how buildings learn, this video shows how pirate radio stations in London adapt to an urban environment to provide music, news and other information not covered by commercial, licensed stations. Although it is mostly about the stations and their operation, the adaptations they make to a city's buildings to accommodate a station is obvious.

If you can wade through the accents, you'll see some plucky, talented young people create programming for an unserved audience. I especially like the comment about how the underground stations feed commercial radio content.

As cities in developing countries (and the developed world) grow, I'm sure we'll see more homebrew broadcasting of all sorts.