Having read the other article about EA's botched SimCity release, I had come across this trailer earlier today. Does anyone have any interesting links, papers,

Having read the other article about EA's botched SimCity release, I had come across this trailer earlier today. Does anyone have any interesting links, papers, references, etc. for implementing a city simulation? I really like the idea of agent-based models and actor systems, and I think it would be a lot of fun of learning about the science and engineering of the models behind these types of games.