An Urban Planner Plays Sim City

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A working urban planner plays SimCity and comments on where the game matches or departs from real planning practice. It comes from the City Beautiful channel, which makes videos about cities and urban design.

HN people point to it as a good example of real urban planning mimicking the simulation, and as an expert's check on how accurate SimCity is.

“Here's a video of an urban planner playing Sim City 2000, and commenting on the various ways in which it's accurate or inaccurate”

3 comments from Hacker News

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@swaggyBoatswain2018 · in “Medieval Fantasy City Generator”
There's a really good video on a cityplanner playing simCity 3000 ▶ this video Its interesting to see how real life mimics the simulation here
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@bane2018 · in “An Urban Planner Plays Sim City”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@darkpuma2019 · in “From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners”
Here's a video of an urban planner playing Sim City 2000, and commenting on the various ways in which it's accurate or inaccurate: ▶ this video