In Praise Of The Urban Sandbox Summary

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Urban Planning and City Building Games The article “In Praise of the Urban Sandbox” talks about computer or video games which deal with city or transportation building. It talks about the relevance of such games in today’s society by describing how games have evolved to present storylines or capabilities which mirror what can be found or seen in the real world. It also talks about how games that involve the building and maintaining of cities can teach the players about urban planning and the concepts associated with it. The article even highlighted specific games such as City in Motion which helped give inspiration to the author in his work as a graphic designer for the Regional Plan Association in New York City. …show more content…

An example of this that was mentioned in the article was the Caesar series by Sierra Games. This game allowed players to build an ancient day Roman metropolis through managing resources and balancing the cultural growth of their cities and citizens. This kind of game is very educational because through it, players could learn to understand the concepts of urban planning that applied to ancient times and let them see how these concepts have evolved to apply to modern times. In a way, it teaches how concepts of urban planning developed through time and the reasons why these happened. It shows why some concepts and ideas which worked before disappeared and why new concepts were invented as the needs of people changed with the innovations in technology and changing …show more content…

The Nobel Prize has always been associated with innovations in the field of science and technology, innovations which deal with curing diseases or improving the lives of millions of people. The idea that simulation games could provide such advantages is eye-opening but at the same time intriguing. The possibility of this happening could bring advantages such as such as the improvement of city planning which in turn would solve numerous everyday problems such as traffic, city economics, settlement, and even public funding, as well as the ideas stated in the previous

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