I have a fairly decent geographic memory. When many of my older cousins began to drive, I was the young one helping them navigate the east side of metropolitan Detroit. I like connecting real places to my experiences, and connecting real places to scenes we see in the media. This strong sense of place is described as topophilia (a love or affinity for place). (This was one of the first terms I remember learning in planning school from Dr. Rex Lamore at Michigan State University, and it's stuck with me ever sense.)
I plan to make this a bit more of a "series" in connecting the settings of television shows, movies, music videos or other media, to real places. I did this last week for the setting of April and Andy's possible new house on Parks and Recreation, so, I guess this is the second installment of what I will call "Geography on Set". I plan not only to show the actual location of these settings in media, but a bit more about each neighborhood, including demographics and development patterns.
