Gods of the City? Reflecting on City Building Games as an Early Introduction to Urban Systems

Bereitschaft, Bradley

doi:10.1080/00221341.2015.1070366

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“…However, from an educational perspective, this approach also has to be discussed critically, as every selection/limitation implies the risk of being biased. As Bereitschaft [8] (p. 51) noted in his analysis of city building games, "players are constrained by the developers' assumptions and biases regarding how cities ought to look and function". According to Bereitschaft city building games, for instance, "emphasize personal transportation over transit" [8] (p. 51) and the development of a large number of measures needed to create a sustainable city in Cities: Skylines cannot be implemented without the Green Cities DLC.…”

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“…The use of games to teach decision-making-as part of complex problem-solving relevant for geography education-is supported by, at least, four main arguments. First, numerous studies have shown the potential of digital games-both serious and entertainment games-as a tool for education in general [3][4][5], and geography education in particular [6][7][8][9]. Second, a lot of strategy and management games refer to problems discussed in geography education and also arrange these problems in a spatial way.…”

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How Digital Strategy and Management Games Can Facilitate the Practice of Dynamic Decision-Making

Czauderna

Budke

2020

Education Sciences

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This paper examines how digital strategy and management games that have been initially designed for entertainment can facilitate the practice of dynamic decision-making. Based on a comparative qualitative analysis of 17 games—organized into categories derived from a conceptual model of decision-making design—this article illustrates two ways in which these games may be useful in supporting the learning of dynamic decision-making in educational practice: (1) Players must take over the role of a decider and solve situations in which players must pursue different conflicting goals by making a continuous series of decisions on a variety of actions and measures; (2) three of the features of the games are considered to structure players’ practice of decision-making and foster processes of learning through the curation of possible decisions, the offering of lucid feedback and the modification of time. This article also highlights the games’ shortcomings, from an educational perspective, as players’ decisions are restricted by the numbers of choices they can make within the game, and certain choices are rewarded more than others. An educational application of the games must, therefore, entail a critical reflection of players’ limited choices inside a necessarily biased system.

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Section: Curation Of the Scope Of Possibilities (Possible Decisions)mentioning

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How Digital Strategy and Management Games Can Facilitate the Practice of Dynamic Decision-Making

Czauderna

Budke

2020

Education Sciences

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“…As indicated by the time-series mean values, decreasing and increasing trends can be observed for BCR and FAR, respectively, which is partly due to the replacement of compact low-rise building areas with open high-rise ones (Figure 9a), as mentioned in Sections 3.2 and 3.3. Meanwhile, urban redevelopment has been dedicated to optimizing land-use structure, in order to mitigate the "big city diseases" [74]. For example, as shown in Figure 9b,d, areas with high building density have been redeveloped to urban green spaces, leading to an inevitable decrease of BCR and a possible increase of FAR.…”

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Monitoring 3D Building Change and Urban Redevelopment Patterns in Inner City Areas of Chinese Megacities Using Multi-View Satellite Imagery

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Inner-city redevelopment is regarded as an effective way to promote land-use efficiency and optimize land-use structure, especially with the establishment of urban growth boundaries in Chinese cities. However, inner-city redevelopment as compared to urban sprawl has been rarely monitored in 2D space, let alone in 3D space. Therefore, in this paper, a novel approach to generate time-series 3D building maps (i.e., building footprint and height) based on high-resolution (2 m) multi-view ZY-3 satellite imagery was proposed. In the proposed method, the building footprint was updated by an object-based image-to-map change detection method, which employed spectral (i.e., HSV and NDVI) and structural features (i.e., morphological building index) to extract non-building and building objects, respectively; building height was estimated automatically through semi-global matching of multi-view images. We applied the proposed method to four representative Chinese megacities, i.e., Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, and Wuhan, for the period 2012–2017, and detected building footprints with overall accuracies ranging from 84.84% to 97.60%. The building height estimation was also relatively accurate, with the bias, slope, and root-mean-square error being −0.49–2.30 m, 0.93–1.10 m, and 4.94–7.31 m, respectively. Our results show that the total building coverage decreased over the study period, accompanied by an increase in both area-weighted building height and floor area ratio. In addition, compact low-rise buildings have been replaced by open high-rise buildings in the urban redevelopment process. Moreover, due to the scattered spatial distribution of the redevelopment sites, the local spatial aggregation patterns of building density are unlikely to shift between hotspots (i.e., spatial aggregation of high values) and coldspots (i.e., spatial aggregation of low values).

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“…When considering flagship smart city architectures, then, it becomes clear that spaces such as the GOC and the Data Dome are imbued with a videological approach to the city that is, at heart, also a ludic approach rooted in the aesthetics of videogaming. This is because the screens and consoles, and the potential for visualisations of both data and physical spaces of the city, render the smart city operative as a 'gamer' who can direct, control (play) the city much as a videogamer can be absorbed in an urban simulation like the popular SimCity videogame (Bereitschaft, 2016).…”

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Spaces of visibility in the smart city: Flagship urban spaces and the smart urban imaginary

Caprotti

2018

Urban Studies

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Smart urbanism is a currently popular and widespread way of conceptualising the future city. At the same time, the smart city is critiqued by several scholars as difficult to define, and as being almost invisible to the naked eye. The article explores two urban spaces through which the smart city is rendered visible, in two UK cities that are prominent sites for smart urban experimentation and development. Bristol’s Data Dome and Glasgow’s Operations Centre are analysed in light of their iconic nature. The article develops a conceptual understanding of these flagship spaces of the actually existing smart cities through three interrelated conceptual lenses. Firstly, they are understood as a videological type of Leibniz’s concept of the windowless monad. Secondly, they are conceptualised as examples of banal and serialised architecture. Thirdly, these spaces and their attendant buildings are understood as totemic assemblages that point to newly emergent forms of elite urban power.

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Gods of the City? Reflecting on City Building Games as an Early Introduction to Urban Systems

Cited by 43 publications

References 23 publications

How Digital Strategy and Management Games Can Facilitate the Practice of Dynamic Decision-Making

How Digital Strategy and Management Games Can Facilitate the Practice of Dynamic Decision-Making

Monitoring 3D Building Change and Urban Redevelopment Patterns in Inner City Areas of Chinese Megacities Using Multi-View Satellite Imagery

Spaces of visibility in the smart city: Flagship urban spaces and the smart urban imaginary

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