SimCity Trains Bad Urban Planners

An anonymous reader writes "The global eco tech blog Worldchanging has a post commenting on about how SimCity borks urban planner ideas of how cities really work in the real world." From the entry: "While some of Lobo & Schooler's complaints arise from the fact that SimCity is built as a game -- the "God Mode," for example -- most derive from inability to modify the underlying model, whether to include mixed-use development (the ground-floor commercial/upper-floor residential buildings which help to make dense urban environments livable), to vary the demand ratings for various services, to make pedestrian travel more acceptable, or to alter the efficiency and availability of renewable power generation."

Comments

Damn

[SilentChris]

And here I was thinking that I could actually cause Godzilla to run through the city as New York's urban planner. *rolls eyes*

This is sort of like saying "Mario has taught children to hate the environment as they now stomp on turtles." Patently absurd.

So, by that logic...

[Palshife]

Halo doesn't properly instruct future supersoldiers
Half-Life shows an unrealistic picture of the profession of a physics Ph.D.
Battlefield 1942 misrepresents the look and feel of Wake Island

I could go on.