Spacefighter: The Evolutionary City (Game): Actar - Softcover

Wini Maas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8496540731 ISBN 13: 9788496540736

Publisher: Actar D, 2007

Synopsis

The book presents the research by the Action Space! Studio on the Evolutionary City. An ambitious project meant to create a new tool not only for urban planners, but also for people involved inside project management business and people outside that practice. A kind of simulator-educational tool. The journey of discovery began by understanding evolution starting with Darwin, his phenotypes, the realms of biology, sociology, and economics. Pumped by evolution's magic the studio quickly plunged into game theory. These two lines of research synthesized into a set of games modeled on diverse aspects of the city - from the tasks a building developer faces when dealing with land value to the more intangible aspects of a city (i.e. the driving forces of desires in social groups).

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Review

Space Fighter suggests that tomorrow's cities will be run like video games, an organizational challenge best addressed through simulations, not the book-based planning of today's town halls. So will mayors one day fire their planners and pick up a Wii? Only time will tell. --Dwell Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: Actar D
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8496540731
• ISBN 13: 9788496540736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Arie Graafland, Winy Maas