Life in the City, a City that is constant motion! Wondered how your city and/or region works. Wondered what Planners do to enable (that is enable not disable) the ongoing … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 6: A City in Motion
Tag: Cities Skylines
Ben goes Planning Part 4: State of Play between Digital Urban Simulator and Real World Planning by a Planner
So, can real world planning, and the mixed reality of virtual planning via Cities Skylines exist side by side? Wondered how your city and/or region works. Wondered what Planners do … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 4: State of Play between Digital Urban Simulator and Real World Planning by a Planner
Ben Goes Planning Part 1: 5 Surprising Truths About How Your City Works (Learned from a Video Game)
The hidden logic behind the City’s Blue Print of Marsden Point Wondered how your city and/or region works. Wondered what Planners do to enable (that is enable not disable) the … Continue reading Ben Goes Planning Part 1: 5 Surprising Truths About How Your City Works (Learned from a Video Game)
The Very Definition of Planning Complexity
The consequences of those deliberate choices made earlier on In developing Manukau City Centre in Cities Skylines 2 through my 3.x series, I pondered about how much complexity goes on … Continue reading The Very Definition of Planning Complexity
National Standardised Zones top off busy week in the Aotearoa Planning Sphere
Aotearoa is diving headfirst into the National Standardised Zones (NSZs), ripping apart over 1,000 zoning categories to embrace a mere 17-20, mirroring Japan’s and Victoria’s models. This radical overhaul promises uniformity across cities, but is it truly beneficial? While gamers cherish the consistency of zones like those in Cities Skylines, the real question looms: Will this homogenization in planning stifle diversity and creativity in urban design?
Micro Districts, the Soviet Union and Modern City Planning
How a Soviet Concept can be translated into the 15 Minute City After my Vision Week podcasts (Going Back to the Beginning – Spatial Planning #visionweekNZ #bounceforward Podcasts) I had chanced … Continue reading Micro Districts, the Soviet Union and Modern City Planning
Ben’s Urban Geographies: I will be Podcasting all things #UrbanGeography from 2020
Twitch and Podcasts After initial positive feedback with both the Twitch streams and podcasts using Cities Skylines as the main communication tool I am going to separate the two out … Continue reading Ben’s Urban Geographies: I will be Podcasting all things #UrbanGeography from 2020
Talking Southern Auckland 