VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning book city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation programming/c++ society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
2. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation politics research science-fiction society/demographics weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
3. Crosswalks Collective LA - How to Paint a Crosswalk

   2022-05-31
   city paint urban walking

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4. Andrea Gibbons - Just communities, just cities, Just connections between country and city. Also, the weird and wonderful.

   2018-08-20
   architecture building city garden people street urban

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   • http://writingcities.com/2015/07/23/donald-appleyard-on-creating-livable-streets/
   • http://writingcities.com/2015/06/02/the-social-life-of-small-urban-places-or-things-planners-should-know-but-still-dont/
   • http://writingcities.com/2015/04/30/topophilia-pt-1/
   • http://writingcities.com/2015/05/15/how-to-study-public-life-the-danish-way/
   • http://writingcities.com/2015/12/03/3899/
   • https://vimeo.com/16399180
5. Home / Steelplant

   2014-06-14
   desk garbage graffiti grow plant steel urban

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   Miniature dumpsters for your plants!

6. Urban Dictionary: Progressive Grunge

   2013-08-22
   genre music/progressive-grunge

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   alternative pop hooks :D