Honestly that somewhat reflects the real world, at least in America. It seems to me that most people believe that more roads equals more options and freedom of

Honestly that somewhat reflects the real world, at least in America. It seems to me that most people believe that more roads equals more options and freedom of movement. However, this doesn't take into account the detrimental effects of increased smog, cities optimized for cars instead of pedestrians, and so on. The perceived benefits of more roads, in my opinion, seem to pale in comparison to the detrimental impacts that this would have on cities. Sim City seems to capture this perfectly through the third-person view of a city. There's a difference between being happy and wanting changes that you believe will make you happy, and a computer simulation has captured this distinction by showing both a citizen's actual happiness separate from their desires. Obviously this isn't an exact parallel to the real world as desires can have an impact on one's happiness as well. However, it asks the important question of whether or not we should be designing cities to match desires, or to match what city planners believe would make people the happiest.