Posts tagged Simcity
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National links: Will DC’s 11th Street Bridge Project be a national model for mitigating displacement?
Can DC’s 11th Street Bridge Park live up to its promises? Maryland Route 83 named one of US PIRG’s national highway boondoggles of 2022. Why all the intersections in Kansas City are the worst. Keep reading…
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Cities Skylines takes over SimCity’s mantle as top city-builder
Those of you who’ve dreamed of having their own city to build from the ground up now have a new virtual way to make it happen: A computer game called Cities: Skylines. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build it at a Metro station
FBI not near Metro?; Hospital at Largo?; WMATA has 11 more in mind; Less for transportation; It’s a “collision,” not an “accident,” in New York; FTC is pro-Uber; Urbanism isn’t new in SimCity; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New directions
Pay-to-play fueled Cheh’s push; VRE down, MARC up; Nowhere to compost; MoCo wants land deal oversight; Transportation bill going nowhere fast; Pocket parks fail; City folk pay less in transportation; Katz out as planner; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Calm traffic to improve your life
Slow down to speed up; Calm circles for Arlington?; Elevator problems plague NYC; Bike the Big Easy; Party… like it’s 1776; MoCo requires a bike sharing station; Reconsider your commute; Gov. Brown makes streets more dangerous; And…. Keep reading…
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SimCity getting better, still a simplification
The original SimCity taught me it’s best to segregate commercial zones far from residential zones to make property values higher, and to build very large donut shaped superblocks. The 1960s form of urban planning that SimCity’s model rewards turned out to be totally wrong. Keep reading…
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EveryBlock and more for DC
EveryBlock is a new site that lets you see everything going on in your block: pictures people upload, inspection violations in local restaurants, building permits, and more. Here’s my old block in NYC. It looks like it could be a very useful tool for citizens to keep up with what’s going on in their neighborhoods. Rob Halligan is pushing to bring it to DC—that would… Keep reading…