Really, nicely done and a long read. Here the conclusion, that hopefully will make you want to read it too: "In conclusion, I’ve been trying for years to imagi

Really, nicely done and a long read. Here the conclusion, that hopefully will make you want to read it too: "In conclusion, I’ve been trying for years to imagine an alternative SimCity. And I realized that the biggest fallacy of a City simulator is to try to present itself as an all-encompassing system, supposedly capable of describing many possible cities. I believe that in order to move away from the SimCity paradigm we need many different city simulations, each one limiting its scope to certain dynamics, certain contexts. Each one declaring its intent, its embedded values. Each one incorporating localized knowledge, wisdom coming from the street level. What we should make are not games that explain how cities work. But rather games we can use to think about our cities, past, present and future."