An Urban Planner Plays Sim City

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Have you ever wondered what a city planner would think of SimCity? This video answers that question! Stick through the video for thoughts on grids, eminent domain, zoning, and more.
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[@CityBeautiful]

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[@Skarico]

City Beautiful hey colleague 😄🌇. Really nice channel 👍🏻

[@adamhostetter6788]

City Beautiful you should do another video like this but with City Skylines! I think explaining how each game is more or less realistic is cool too

[@mukrifachri]

And here I am left thinking you'd do something radically different ! turns out "fun" is still simple. Also, maybe you'd be interested in a collaboration with another city planner ? I know one from Australia : kzbin.info

[@aznguymetal]

Play Cities Skylines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@amirulfarhan919]

City Beautiful try city skyline

[@JordanTaylor84]

"We'll talk about budgets later..." Yep, Town Planner confirmed ;)

[@Vollification]

Next up. Town accountant plays SimCity :) Builds nothing "No buildnings, no expenses :D "

[@ggldmrd5583]

@@Vollification Next an European governor plays Simcity : "We have to destroy all industries and put Banks instead" :D

[@fredsmith2272]

Canned Coochie

[@gagrochowski]

As a town planner myself I couldn't agree more lol

[@awake7586]

@@Vollification lmao

[@MrLuisMiguel1]

"if you're not interested in gaming videos, i understand". It's the most viewed video on the channel.

[@crazytigerspy9420]

Videos titles like this really makes the algorithm recommend it a lot

[@aayushdeshpande9224]

Bruh moment. But NGL, this channel deserves more attention!! I just discovered it.

[@mjfreespirit]

This is the third most popular behind Gary, Indiana and Cul De Sacs

[@Whytey-zg2dt]

Coal worker strike in beautiful city!! Poor Coal Plant workers need to walk through fields and forests to get to work. "build us a road" exclaims Gary, a 65 year old sim who has lived in beautiful city his whole life. "Its pathetic that a mayor who claims to be a city planner would allow such an over site" another anonymous employee shouted. The angry mob that has gathered in front of the mayors house this morning demand answers. For years now these poor workers have braved the 30km trek in all weather and pleas to the mayor still go unnoticed. source: channel sim news, beautiful city

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

Sight*

[@Klng5hlt]

Loooooool

[@mrnonsense1031]

*50 Years Later* Nuclear plant workers strike in Beautiful City "Build us a damn road already!" One worker yelled out. "My Grandpa Gary worked at the coal plant that stood there and he was demanding a road too!"

[@erikromatowski9342]

This is simcopter one reporting

[@shioyoutube9041]

@@erikromatowski9342 “This is Simcopter One reporting no traffic as there’s no road!”

[@SpydeyDan]

It would be hilarious if you hit November 1929 and the city's economy just automatically tanked.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Video too unrealistic, unsubbed.

[@99certain45]

Or March 2020 for that matter XD

[@aayushdeshpande9224]

Even more fun would be if the city got destroyed around 1942. Gee chills!

[@JustinK0]

plane crashed in 2007 instead of 2001 lol

[@blagoevski336]

Yeah

[@philv2529]

So, the answer to the question, "How does an urban planner play Sim City?" is, "Exactly the same as everyone else."

[@krux02]

but the feeling is different

[@dredroberts6316]

I think we're glossing over how easy he's making it look,most people are not as adept with the fiscal side, building zones,and transportation combined to start with.Just saying,I think he is more in tune than the average bear.

[@MaartenvanRossemLezingen]

You should play Cities Skylines

[@MrJbnlp]

But with mods please!

[@awesomelyshorticles]

PeterLustig which mods?

[@MrJbnlp]

Connor Amlee ALL THE MODS

[@dominicanfrankster]

I recommend Luetin's collections of mods, with the exception that you want Automatic Bulldoze v2, and instead of Rush Hour II, you want the Real Time mod (PropaneDragon, bless his soul, has passed the mantle).

[@VerumPositor]

Have a look at my Mod collection. There are about 100 Mods

[@Chosen1Creator]

My favorite power plant for the early game was the hydro plant because it cost the same as coal but it doesn't pollute and never needs to be replaced.

[@mikeddh2018]

Same

[@spookaj6261]

"A coal power plant in California would be a hard sell" Australia: *sweats nervously*

[@brewcolthup7821]

Oath

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

He starts in 1900 so it's kind of a useless point

[@robokast]

You should try this again with Cities Skylines! There are tons of other things to plan and design, and it's much more in depth.

[@Head_in_clouds_]

+1 Would like to hear thoughts on how Cities Skylines handles the big concepts of city planning.

[@JohnSmith-sk7cg]

+2 I found this video really interesting, but would love to see his thoughts on what is essentially the defacto modern city building game. I'm also hoping his insights about it will help me in thinking about how I build my cities out.

[@redgeneral5792]

Definitely need to do it with mods, especially ones that allow other infoviews during road construction. Very helpful for hills and high relief features.

[@MidnightSt]

yes please, thankyouverymuch please =D

[@jjbinx]

cities skylines is shit

[@ctctreno]

"I play Sim City with disasters on because I'm not a wimp" Great quote

[@bangarang74]

*immediately switches game mode to easy*

[@pilgrimlarry]

Pauses game to deal with fire instead of fighting it real-time.

[@LeelooMinai]

"I am a city planner and now I can answer that question about 20 years later"

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

That's the crazy reality of this world. So many things we take for granted were once implemented by some random person who only really knew what they were doing in theory, and based on a lot of estimates, assumptions and qualified guesses.

[@kevinmalone3355]

"I just got off a long day at work planning cities, I need to relax! I think I'll sit back and relax by planning a city."

[@Bobby.Kristensen]

How do we really know you work for the government? "let's talk about budget later..." Ahh.. nvm...

[@jivey5123]

I am waiting for the day when a government official asks for less funding.

[@ViralForceMarketing]

i was really looking forward to the budget talk :(

[@Quiltfish]

YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING!! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!

[@genli5603]

Terry and The Professor In Texas, a woman got elected on the promise that she would remove her position permanently because there were virtually no duties left in it. She did! She moved the last tiny duties and then got the representatives to pass a law eliminating the role.

[@Vikash137]

I'M A HITMAN PLAYING HITMAN

[@mogwaigremlin7188]

I'M A SPOON

[@LearnGuitarBristol]

I'm a goat playing Goat Simulator

[@Quiltfish]

Well, one crazy journalist had actual Yakuza members play Yakuza, that's close enough to count, right?

[@meanstreak110]

Do way is not in the way anymore of it being so out. Never is good but not always.

[@eklaassen9924]

I'm a plumber and I'm playing Mario!

[@ABC-rb5uf]

Understand RCI (click on the icon for explanation) and you'll understand why your city was not doing great at the start. Yellow was in demand with Green and blue declining.

[@Thalassicus01]

"Yep, so, the city's looking good!"

[@paulbarclay5487]

"Real cities have zoning maps." Houston, TX confirmed as fictional.

[@tnickknight]

Why it a toilet

[@0623kaboom]

they do ... those people with the most money get what they want the rest get what the politicians feel like

[@gracem9729]

We all don't have a zoning system in the UK (yet...!!) and at least some of our cities are pretty real :-)

[@aygwm]

Houston sucks.

[@Ambtrannight2023]

90 year old cop plays L.A. Noire

[@geckoo9190]

Actually they put a couple of private investigators to play it, they pointed out the lack of care on the handling of the evidence and that the officers in the game were contaminanting the scene, also some pointers on the case.

[@poisondamage2182]

@@geckoo9190 yeah, but that's kind of ok, given the era the game takes place

[@dareGamingDareDez]

Doubt..

[@TheManinBlack9054]

@@tannawannavannabittannawan7138wow, why so much salt?

[@KinseySwartz]

@@tannawannavannabittannawan7138 "Boi" is actually the Portuguese word for ox.

[@andrewmcs1530]

#SimCityPlanner - watching through made me realise how clueless I was playing through this as a kid!

[@0623kaboom]

made me realize how clueless city planners are to ALL the facts ... and what they ignore ... people first city flow second ... is better not flow first people second ... live within nature ... not make nature live with you . so wake up and do one where you build to keep your pollution problems under control from the start

[@GudMeuws]

What a ride, didn't expect to learn so much about Sim City 2000 AND real city planning. This may have awoken something in me... #SimCityPlanner

[@lightster]

Why did they go with green for residential? 1) In the original SimCity, they used Red for Residential. RCI was RBY, instead of the GBY introduced in SimCity 2000. 2) I always associated the residential green with having lawns. I have no idea what the real reason is.

[@awake7586]

Maybe cuz green can be related to the cash that people need to shop in the comercial and they get it by working in the industrial?

[@squarefan80]

"...and if it ends up being a burnt-out hellscape, then the name becomes ironic." great planning!

[@SirHellaDope]

“I play with disasters on cause I’m not a wimp” *plays on easy mode*

[@nohbuddy1]

Now I need to see an actual general play an RTS game

[@matt25675]

AmericanNohbuddy ™ lol yeah

[@maxman1602]

Like Age of Empires II.

[@hakont.4960]

Or C&C Generals, that would be kinda meta. :D

[@nohbuddy1]

The Wind Breezes Yeah or something like that

[@LoydAvenheart]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKipe4uuocx2o5I

[@RIFLQ]

An urban planner plays Sim City? What's next, police plays GTA V? Soldier plays C.O.D?

[@xFuaZe]

Why not?

[@KhanterWinters]

There is Videos actually of Policeman playing GTA V and SAS playing COD MW ;)

[@ItsameWeegee1]

Master Chief playing halo. ok, now that; would be epic

[@theblackwidower]

Might be more accurate for a gang banger to play GTA V. "Truth is, when you murder a hooker, they don't actually pay out anything."

[@TheOzzy131313]

Architects play the sims

[@devinwhitlock2739]

As far as the states’ land right situation this exact thing happened in Arlington, Texas for the construction of the Dallas Cowboy Stadium(aka Jerry World). Been a resident here for 21 years and about 10 years ago when the plans were okayed, the Jones family bought nearly 5 square miles of dense apartment housing and section 8 housing right from under the residents. He gave them a bit of time to move out( I think it was like a year) and then completely leveled the whole area. It was sad because kids I went to school with and people you saw in town were all defeated and depressed because their lives had just been sold away for a fucking football stadium. I think the Jones’ family and Arlington City Council should be put in prison. Thousands of people and millions of dollar of potential revenue in the neighboring businesses, restaurants, utilities, etc. for a big building we use 3 months out of the year on every other weekend. I get it makes a lot of money too but we are literally talking about 4/5 blocks of housing destroyed to the ground for a stadium. Something is wrong with this world.

[@Imperial0666]

you have to remember that cities are corporations as well. they don't answer to the people they answer to the interests of money.

[@elliotw4606]

@@Imperial0666 I know that area too. And yes money is important but doesn't mean idiots like J. Jones do idiotic thngs that don't actually make as much money as it could had they used their brains. Arlington builds shit like this supposedly for "tourism dollars" right? Well, I'm not sure that's working too well when people come to DFW airport just to find out there's not even a weekend bus to get to Arlington and they have to rent a car or uber there. Arlington is also ranked as one of the single worst cities for tourists and I am not even a bit surprised. Stadiums in super non urban areas are a money risk and I can only MAYBE see the Arlington council make real change when traffic starts getting compared to China.

[@Imperial0666]

@@elliotw4606 you should have seen what they did in Hurst. An entire neighborhood was demolished to expand a mall. they already had another mall in the area nearby in North Richland Hills but all that expansion did was killed off the other mall. People were forced out of of their homes for nothing. It seems like it's not just the federal government but even these local governments don't represent the people.

[@elliotw4606]

@@Imperial0666 You mean that Northeast mall? What a waste. They did all that shit to expand that mall yet they're going nuts inviting mall killer amazon in. This is what I mean not only as doing things bad for people but literal stupid money losing decisions. The Northeast mall is one of the only malls around with a single floor and the reason I think it does ok is bc it has some entertainment and restaurants around. Its like what Ive seen people call the hulen mall. Not a place people shop but a daycare for bored teens. Then they wonder why theres fights and shit. Everyone is bored and entertainment not at home is too damn expensive. I seriously have a feeling DFW is not as successful as they claim and reality will shake it hard one day.

[@Imperial0666]

@@elliotw4606Yes Northeast Mall. they had built far too much retail in DFW. I believe they had the most square foot of retail per capita. Every suburb in DFW was trying to get in on the act. there was an explosion of retail development around the malls in the 90s. Arlington had 3 malls at one time. Northeast Mall was one of the original malls in Tarrant county. I am surprised it survived as long as it did. It went through 2 renovations in the 90s. I barely remember how it used to look before the first renovation in the 80s but I remember they used to allow smoking in there and I remember seeing ash trays throughout the mall.

[@GabrielBarliga]

Oh, SimCity 2000! My favorite! I played for hours on end - I loved that, apart from disasters (which I usually disabled), you could focus on building and optimizing your city. 10/10

[@confirmedmillenial8231]

I'm 25 minutes in to a video about some city planner guy making a virtual city in sims. What's weirder is that I'm enjoying every second of it.

[@rptrj1384]

yes you are so special

[@matheustoremember]

Oh wow

[@tsuobachi]

If you built this city in the real world, you could populate it entirely with your own subscribers, since you had a population of about 50,000. :)

[@CityBeautiful]

Good point!

[@Wario9989]

Mission Failed. Will get ‘em next time.

[@danielmolina118]

I would do it! Such consideration from him towards his virtual citizens.

[@Bartooc]

Birth rate is very high, population of 68000 now.

[@RNGeeGee]

But I don't want a city with 49,981 men and 19 women.

[@xancomia]

"I'm going to give everyone black lung. So that's cool. " -- a legend

[@DeeQJohnson]

This is how I got interested in planning/GIS... before I even knew what Planning and GIS was

[@KhazModan1]

Thanks for an amusing video. I just discovered your channel. I also work as a city-planner, but in Sweden and have long wanted to know more how planing actually work in the US and I think and hope your channel will bring some clarity to me.

[@FutureNow]

This was really interesting and fun to watch. And I don't even normally watch Let's Plays.

[@TowerGuy]

Your Channel really reminds me of Wendover Productions

[@ExtremePragmatist]

Awww, you disabled the background music. That was one of the best parts of Simcity 2000. 😕

[@ModdingNewbie]

Presence of music = demonetization maybe, it's perhaps a risk he didn't want to take. It is KZbin, so you can probably find the BGM elsewhere. Was _SC2K's_ music anything like the music from the original Super Nintendo _SimCity's_ music? Some of it was my favorite.

[@MrVidification]

@@ModdingNewbie SC2K music isn't as good as the snes original Sim City

[@ModdingNewbie]

@@MrVidification Well, that's disappointing...! I wonder how limited their budget was?

[@jerodast]

Personally I'm disappointed there isn't any "African Swallow" option in the GoG version of the speed control menu

[@Color-Theory]

"I play with disasters on because I'm not a WIMP!" *sets difficulty to easy* lol But for real, this is fantastic content. I love the bits of information that showed up in the corner.

[@mcopado]

This is so funny. I at one point did an Urban Planning/Urban Studies co-major, right around when this game first came out (The original in 1989,) and I indeed did play it as a student. I think we used it as a class project.

[@Cythil]

Personally I think the pixel art graphics are great in Sim City 2000. Considering how little resource they had to work with I am not sure it could get much better.

[@SpeedySPCFan]

It's very impressive when you consider they only have 256 colors to work with at a time, and that the game had to be able to run on CPUs with a whopping 25mhz!

[@regsun7947]

It also came with a tile maker, so you could make custom buildings. I came to SC:2000 a little late, as in found it in the bargain bin, and it came with SCURK (SimCity Urban Renewal Kit) and there were so many add-ons like SimCopter. It was so much fun to build a city big enough to start making arcologies, then launching them into space. I had a great time with it.

[@StefanMilo]

Such a classic game, many childhood memories. Great video!

[@MrShellVaant]

It says 2053 so old isn,t it?

[@danielmmckeown]

This was freaking awesome. Thanks for recording this!

[@HammaneggsAirborne]

Be careful with Cities Skylines, its more addicting than you think. Not only is there the traditional expansion elements, you have much finer control of zoning, and extremely detailed traffic management, which can be made more realistic with a couple mods. I personally end up spending at very least 30 minutes on a single freeway interchange. Since it has DLC, there's several more sides of the content that you can better access including parks, tourisim, and more. Just don't go too far with mods, its easy to push one's computer to far.

[@chloroformalify]

17:30 gentrification, the game

[@MountainHawkPYL]

Four of the available neighbor city names are named after "Red Dwarf" characters: Kryten, Lister, Rimmer, Cat's Corner.

[@davidawalkerjr2905]

Beat me to it

[@MythosGandaar]

I love this, I've always had an interest in urban planning and this is so cool to find your channel.

[@Quartered_Rodent]

Saw the entire video. Liked the "fun facts" on the side of the video that was neat. I used to play Simcity 2000 back when i was a kid on the Playstation1... actually i still play SimCity 4 on PC... lots of fun.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I did an undergrad in Urban Planning and was so tempted to change the residential zones to green in a GIS class using land use maps. I really relate to this video!

[@Marmocet]

When I played this game as a kid, I would always bulldoze low income housing whenever it appeared because poor people and their ugly little dwellings are gross and they had no place in the utopias I was trying to build. I always thought it was funny that you could do that without even having to compensate the people whose homes you were casually destroying. The only cost you really had to think about was the one you had to pay to the bulldozer crews.

[@HelgaCavoli]

I guess some people do it for real but also think there're no consequences for actual people.

[@themanfromearth3036]

Funny, for me it was vice versa. I was always looking to create grimey, crime riddled cities. I would purposefully remove police stations from certain areas to see what would happen, which was nothing really. That's what I'm still missing in these city building games. You can really only create really pretty cities. If there aren't enough utilities or there's too much crime, everybody just leaves lol.

[@achannel.518]

So you were aiming to make Gotham?

[@pierrecooper3419]

@@themanfromearth3036 I did that in Sim City lol. Made a city specialized in gambling. Crime went through the roof. Abandon buildings and gunshots constantly ringing through the city lmao

[@Simboy93]

That and the cost of a good night's sleep :P

[@MicroUrb]

I was a student of Regional Economic and Social Development masters program at UMass, Lowell when I was a heavy Sim City player. In fact, one of my classes was City Management and my professor was the actual former City Manager of the City of Lowell. I ended up not becoming an urban planner, but a software engineer, but one thing I learned in both my courses and playing Sim City is to never build an interstate that cuts right through the middle of a city, because one side of town may flourish, will the other side of town will have businesses close down, abandoned properties and high crime. In fact, that's exactly what happened when I build an interstate that cuts across a city in Sim City. So I ask myself, if urban planning case studies taught us against this and Sim City teaches us against this, why on Earth would the urban planners of Austin, Texas go and build an I-35 that cuts right across the city and continues to slice up the city with all these highways? Are their urban planners all baby boomers? Is urban planning in Texas behind the times compared to universities in Massachusetts? I mean even Boston threw I-93 underground and now the city is more beautiful for it. Help me understand this intellectual urban planning disconnect between Austin and the rest of the country. By the way around 16:50 I started to see urban blight where you started to use your eminent domain powers. It would be interesting to hear your analysis as to why you started to get urban blight in those neighborhoods you ended up razing to avoid this in the real world.

[@Chaosrunepownage]

Sim City 3000 was my stuff. I need to figure out a way to play it on a modern PC just for the custom building feature alone! I remember making an absolutely giant skyscraper of Sonic and setting it to appear in low density commercial... good times, man. 3x3 and taller than the Burj Khalifa. That was probably my proudest achievement for a few years.

[@Dinosword2000]

Chaosrunepownage I think you can buy it on GoG.com, ready for play on a modern pc.

[@agiar2000]

#SimCityPlanner Thanks for the fun video! My first SimCity game was the original, made in 1989, which came in a box with your choice of one 3.5" floppy disk or two 5.25" floppy disks! I also played "SimCity 2000" (1993), though I was never any good at either of them. After watching a real medical doctor watch and react to "House" (the TV series), I got this video of yours as a suggestion. I was excited to see your take on this, and I was very pleased with what you presented!

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

#cimcityplanner

[@mariomguy]

17:00 - YOU DESTROYED ALL THOSE HOUSES!!!! Eminent domain made sense for the highways, but geez!

[@danielbarton7151]

That feeling when you're a huge nerd that enjoys city planning content purely for fun, and you realize the stock footage of the street paving is in your old neighborhood! Thanks for representing Westover Village in Arlington County, Virginia! :-D

[@archlinuxrussian]

I now really want to play this, haha. I loved playing Cities: Skylines, but it just got too resource-intensive for my PC (it's also a bit poorly optimised, and I *did* have quite a few mods). Another game I've enjoyed is OpenTTD as it really focuses on moving goods and people around :) especially multiplayer! Nice video ^_^ #SimCityPlanner

[@CityBeautiful]

I love OpenTTD! I'd recommend Sim City 4 over this game, but SC2000 is great too. I think both are available at GOG.com and would probably run fine on your machine.

[@scott6992]

If you like OpenTTD, then you'll like Transport Fever which is also on gog.com

[@jasonlisonbee]

To think a game that hogged resources but too fun to resist when it was released can now fit its entire run time in the CPU cache with most of that space to spare.

[@microbios8586]

I bought the newest Sim City a few years ago and I was so disappointed. Utter garbage. The graphics were horrendous. Could it be my computer? I played it once and haven't opened it since.

[@ketaminepoptarts]

@@CityBeautiful simcity 4 is also on steam!

[@abentco]

so many memories I remember seeing the game box in the store and thinking those blocky hills were so cool.

[@redocious8741]

This channel is literally my heaven

[@OkayOkcomics]

sim copter 1 reporting heavy traffic

[@electron2601]

The sound used to play and repeated every minute. Especially on the highest speed like I always kept it.

[@justsomenerd8925]

Is that a pixelated picture of Gene Wilder playing Willy Wonka?

[@101Volts]

@@electron2601 You could actually cause the helicopter to crash if you clicked on it with the crosshairs. This could cause a fire, though.

[@davidm5981]

Holy crap, is that what they said this whole time?!

[@johnfoltz8183]

But click on the helicopter with no disasters turned off, and then it crashed and burns.

[@EpikDesertFox]

You should do cities skylines.

[@alehaim]

Absolutely. Its the most in depth city builder to date Still not the god like perfect game like for example 1 family homes having 5 households, because its a lvl 5 building

[@EpikDesertFox]

Zachary Yeah i got that, just saying that it would be interesting to see how he'd handle cities and its various scenarios.

[@Rudy-ec1er]

Modded Cities Skylines can get very realistic.

[@LuckeWent]

@ale haim There's a mod that for that: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=426163185&searchtext=realistic+population

[@nickh.1110]

Sim City 4 would be more in-depth and Sim City 3000 would be more aesthetically pleasing.

[@RobFisherUK]

Pointless boondoggle bridge that nobody drives across but looks nice; mercilessly demolishing people's homes for the "greater good"; badly maintained electricity supply; micromanaging people's lives with ordnances - yep, you're a city planner all right! 😂😜

[@blankblank1284]

Comedic Sketches I can spell and use correct grammer. I just woke up and was tired at the time of writing. The original comment was just not paying attenion fully, the bridge was made accidently. And demolision costs momey. This is a game so he is not thinking as much as he would a real city. Thus mocking him for his skill as a city planner is quite idiotic. He only went though the same thought process. Not the same amount of work. He also completely disregarded morality as the Sims are just lines of code. Thus morals mean nothing to them. As long as it is legal he would treat it as a possible means to achive the desired result. I am not an idiot, to be honest I am highly above average in terms of my intellect and maturity. Please dont get me wrong, I am not intending to come off as arrogant, but was just correcting you on a assumption you made about me.

[@HopperDragon]

Blank Blank Dude. The comment was a joke. Poking fun. Stop getting whooshed.

[@SamJonessuperangrycrab]

Blank Blank r/iamverysmart much?

[@blankblank1284]

SuperangrycrabYT Is that suppossed to be a compliment or just unwarranted sarcasm? If the latter there is mo reason to insult a stranger on the internet that did nothing to insult or offend you. It just displays immaturity.

[@SamJonessuperangrycrab]

Blank Blank Just look it up and you'll know.

[@eucitizen78]

Good old Sim City 2000. I played it on my Super Nintendo. I had a good time. Thank you for the video and the good memorys it brought back.

[@matthieuleperlier251]

City builders are what make me interested in city planning, so it's nice to see a gaming video on your channel :D

[@zombiearmy237]

It was awesome looking at someone that is a city planner play SimCity, loved your video #SimCityPlanner

[@rockfarmer2524]

haha - similar story for me: The SimCity series was why I became a civil engineer in GIS - spatial analysis and looking for optimal solutions and such ;)

[@definitelynotacrab7651]

The pairing the whole world has waited for, city planer and Sim city. Great video!

[@RedMenace446]

I would love to see you play city skylines with everything unlocked upfront!

[@Dustin_Bins]

Immediate like for mentioning Madison, WI as your favorite :)

[@notsure6187]

LhandedCommando hes from Wisconsin

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

I have this idea of recreating my hometown in Cities Skylines but my current computer doesn't really have the processing power to do so. But if I ever did I'd love to get your opinion on what my city should do in the coming decades planning-wise. Because currently they're stuck in a rut of cul-de-sac and McMansion building.

[@jameskopperud1800]

And so we are in real life

[@jeffbanfieldsflwr3537]

Spencer O'Dowd I think we all had this idea. I would be interested is seeing what you come up with!

[@donavannj]

Maybe give Sim City 4 with a few mods a try.

[@mrnonsense1031]

I tried to create a duplicate of the town I lived in on SimCity. it went well until the zones began to develop. a gas station popped up where a restaurant was supposed to be, an office building popped up where a grocery store was supposed to be, and a factory popped up where a warehouse was supposed to be. 😂😂😂

[@nathanbush6781]

I feel Des Moines is doing an excellent job revitalizing their downtown! Everyone who lives in cities like NYC, Chicago, LA, etc., think of Des Moines as a little village, but we hold our own out here as a nice, modern vibrant city! Sure, we don't have major NFL, NBA, or NHL teams, but that doesn't bother me, as I"m not really into sports (we have minor leagues, though). Des Moines is the city the entire nation focuses on once every four years (for the caucuses). Hope everyone gets a chance to visit our fair city once in their lifetime!

[@jacobkaufman5315]

Nathan Bush CB guy here! I can't stand driving through Des Moines 😜. I drive through I-80E quite a bit because I go to school at Iowa.

[@andreww7904]

Cool to see a Sacramento-based city planner who is passionate about his field! As a Sacramento resident this is good to see!

[@TransitLifeNYC]

I am a #SimCityPlanner you know I was interested when I watched the entire video!

[@mike64817]

Honestly, sim city 2000 seems to be an awesome game. Looks quite different because of the graffics, but by making an upgrade you can also try cities skylines. This one has almost the same rules as the sim city 2000.

[@jsveterans6949]

Dear lord... "Graffics"?

[@manictiger]

Giraffes.

[@101Volts]

SC2K has a few sister games you could import your cities into. Personally, I liked Sim Copter (where you put out fires, catch criminals, do rescue and medevac missions, etc) more than Streets of Sim City which is a vehicular combat game (if you can call it that.)

[@AnriDarkmoor]

That was probably the feature I enjoyed most in Sim Copter. Importing my cities just to see it become lively at the time was pretty exciting.

[@nolanoster3660]

Lol it's traffic graphics

[@VandalAudi]

I took an Urban Planning class when I played SC2000,... it was pretty accurate when you compare it to later SCs. I made a low density residential area on a hill because my population center has gotten too choked, I expected some low to mid suburban area, it turned into mansions r us. I tried both way of planning, the gridlocked highly planned city, and laidback biologically zoned ones. Later, the most restrictive highly planned turns into a communist ghost city, and the less micromanaging I did, it turned into a more vibrant city.

[@richardlevy7674]

Thanks for this video. I list your url as a resource in my class on real estate development and finance. Most of my students have never heard of SimCity

[@noormuzahid9008]

The most informative game play ever!

[@CivilGuy]

I love this concept!!

[@Kieran_Martin]

Its nice to see more people like yourself coming on KZbin and doing things like this. I would like to see more future videos like this from you. You present it well :) #SimCityPlanner

[@WinningCustomers]

This is one of the most enjoyable videos I have seen in a very long time. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your experience with such fine humour. Love it!

[@nicolasescobar9090]

You should make a video about the California High Speed Rail

[@AlexandPedro]

Imagine if an urban planner plays Sim City during work. Haha

[@CityBeautiful]

Right? That would pretty much be the best job ever.

[@allisondoak9425]

Make it happen ESRI!

[@J00rcek]

Boss: what're you doing there champ? Playing games on my dime? CP: Just running some simulation sir, testing some concepts. Boss: Ah, a proactive one. Well, as you were lad, good on ya.

[@mrnonsense1031]

they could call it a training day.

[@beejor]

With your experience you should design a hybrid game/simulator with the accuracy required to allow you to play games and do work at the same time.

[@Prakashed]

SIM city got me hooked to your channel. Never stop.

[@lax6384]

My all time favorite game! Thanks for the upload!!

[@Obenfiquista81]

This video just pop up on my feed and i must say iam loving it. I played simcity so much back in the day (i actually have the iphone version iam playing right now). But i never knew we could build those big blocks. I always tough we had to have more roads. How are those people in the middle leaving they're houses??

[@CjGerz]

Would love to see more city sim videos in the future

[@nikkilynn6057]

I played this in my tech class in my sophomore year of high school, 2013! Students had competitions to make the best cities.

[@detectingretro6313]

Thanks for this. Was interesting to see a different angle on the greatest game of all!

[@unix-oq3cw]

I too played simcity 2000, on windows 98 I believe. I actually think I still have disk somewhere. I was about 10-13 so I wasn't really good, but I did make some small towns myself.

[@VanadiumBromide]

I am going to be this video's most demanding KZbin commenter but I'd like to see you do similar commentaries on most of the major games in the city building genre as it evolved. Going chronologically in release order these games come to mind: Simcity 3000, Simcity 4, City Life, Simcity Societies, Cities XL, Simcity (2013) and Cities Skylines. It would be interesting to watch because the previously listed games were made by 4 different studios (focusing on differing aspects of urban planning) over a period of almost 20 years. Your comments regarding each game would be insightful. I'm not usually interested in Let's Play's but this tightly edited commentary was fun (and nostalgic) to watch. #SimCityPlanner

[@CityBeautiful]

I'll see what I can do! Videos like these actually take a fair amount of time, particularly if I haven't played the game before (as is the case with Cities: Skylines). It was fun, though, so I'll do my best.

[@VanadiumBromide]

Looking forward to it!

[@balkthor]

26:31 Bellingham, WA is another really good example of this, as I'm sure many others are, particularly when you look at the grid for downtown vs. Squalicum vs. the letter district, etc.

[@Maxire]

As a sim builder for many years, it's cool to hear how our design and build motifs are similar: we both enjoy organic design, built in sections, with just enough grid to allow for functionality. I've always tried to build my cities like that in these games to give the city character. Finding that balance is a very rewarding function of the game to me. Thanks for the video! You're going to really enjoy Cities Skylines. As you surmised though, you will get hooked. There are so many nuances and additional items you can do to improve the function and form of the city compared to any of the Sim Cities games. For example, I think I spent at least 12 hours building out walkways and catwalks around my entire city for foot traffic (combined a large amount of trees, ramps, underground tunnels, and extensive park and neighborhood connections). Adding walking/riding paths really layers a city beautifully and can be a very time consuming task to get it just right. It's extremely rewarding though! As an aside, I studied architecture. Though I never followed through with a degree in it, I still love design and planning immensely. :)

[@Strashoy]

#SimCityPlanner haha. Amazing video.

[@Gnaw85]

City planner play cities skylines next please!!

[@hannahc4266]

This is my favorite video of all time

[@chrisbicepnredfield7307]

The switch from Sim City zoning color to my cities' zoning color took me a while too!

[@MB-ey6vv]

I wish you've played Sim City 4 my man, but still awesome video!

[@microbios8586]

Sim City 4 was my addiction in high school. I can't tell you how many hours I wasted sitting at the computer. Urban planning has always been an interest of mine. In fact, I want to play the game right now!

[@wildsmiley]

Actually the Sim City 2000 city hall reminds me a bit of the state capital building in my hometown of Denver, with its overall shape and grey color. The dome is a little different though.

[@jariostereo1494]

wildsmiley Have you tried the sims app?

[@wildsmiley]

Jario Stereo I have, briefly.

[@nukeout]

Enjoyed listening to the video while I bike toured through the city of San Jose and contemplated what infrastructure and zoning I was biking through. Thanks! 👍

[@bakaneiro]

Currently playing this game on the Sega Saturn. Thank you for the great tips!

[@DynamicHaze]

I'd love to see you play a more modern version of sim city.

[@TooManyEditsProductions]

Sam Burr Vs City Beautiful - Go!

[@CityBeautiful]

Sam Bur would win no doubt!

[@JuddMan03]

I'd like to see what you could do with that game

[@pumpkin6429]

City Beautiful Yeah, he'd win in a passive-aggression contest. I'm sure you could beat him as he throws a tantrum over who is and isn't an actual city planner. 👍

[@TheCobyRandal]

Thanks for sharing; great to hear your real world experience and enjoyment of this game. Looking forward to see you take on Cities: Skylines.

[@skilz8098]

Sim City 4 was awesome! I'd do full regions with each region being 200,000+ and some close to the 1 million!