{"id":33708,"date":"2013-05-12T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/simulating-or-not-cities.html"},"modified":"2013-05-14T09:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:42:57","slug":"simulating-or-not-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/simulating-or-not-cities.html","title":{"rendered":"Simulating (or not) Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was very clear to me from the earliest days of my playing with SimCity (back in the black-and-white days) that it wasn't a very good simulator. Traffic (roads and rail) were both hardly realistic.<\/p>\n

This article touches on something else that the ostensibly-more-accurate simulator of cities elides over: parking.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

What are cities for?<\/b> If you say "people" that might not be quite accurate. At least, not the way we actually build them today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Human Transit: how sim city greenwashes parking<\/a>
\n Here’s a shot of an edge city from the new SimCity. Notice what’s missing? (Source: BLDGBLOG) From Geoff Manaugh’s interview of the new SimCity’s designer, Stone Librande: Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships? Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the biggest one was the parking lots. When I started measuring out our local grocery sto…\n <\/p>\n

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It was very clear to me from the earliest days of my playing with SimCity (back in the black-and-white days) that it wasn't a very good simulator. Traffic (roads and rail) were both hardly realistic. This article touches on something else that the ostensibly-more-accurate simulator of cities elides over: parking. 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