On: Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism

[CalRobert]

Note also that Sim City, at least, ignores the reality that American cities are mostly vast swathes of parking with a building sprinkled here and there in the parking-scape.

https://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-pa...

[watersb → CalRobert]

I dunno, a vast sea of parking spaces with the occasional building sums up suburbia for me.

But ok, it's not called "SimSubUrbia"...

[BlarfMcFlarf → watersb]

But it has the suburban cars and suburban zoning, without the parking lots or even a full simulation of the generated traffic (because that would render it nearly unplayable). It sells new generations of potential urbanists on the idea that a car centric city can work as anything other than a failing pothole filled parking wasteland.