The iconic building game known as SimCity, in which one can build a city from the ground up, has enchanted a whole generation of gamers. When it first came out, in 1989, it was an astonishingly fresh concept. The designer, Will Wright, admitted that he was influenced by the urban theorist Jay Forrester and by the work of an architect and scholar named Christopher Alexander. SimCity is the creation not only of a master builder…
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