From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners
Jessica Roy, LA Times, 2019/03/08
I've spent many happy hourse playing Sim City and Cities Skylines and so I understand both the appeal of the games and how they could inspire people to want to make city planning their career (indeed, it's one of my many 'alternate careers' I could easily have fallen into). This article is the story of such people. Of course Sim City embodied a very naive understanding of civic planning. Nonetheless, " the SimCity games are a good introduction to the field. Those people will go on to understand what the game gets right and wrong. More...