METROPOLITAN SPACE LABORATORY
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Metropolitan Simulation Game:
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The urban development simulation Order it online here for 25.- EUR |
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You can use this computer simulation to address the problematics and complexities of urban development in a playful way. In the simulation, you can watch the future development of a city. You can design a city yourself and study the consequences of your planning ideas. In other words, step-by-step, you can watch the economic success or failure of your planning ideas.
This simulation was created based on data about urban principles. The theories and methods used were developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and further researched by us. The simulation has been programmed based on the most recent research in artificial intelligence. Although it is designed as a simulation game, you work with professional tools. |
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Streets, freeways, various types of buildings, railroad stations, rail links, etc., can all be built. You can apply a zoning plan to your city that allows only certain functions in the various urban regions. In addition to the many options for analyzing your city, you can also calculate the gross national product as well as the number of employed and unemployed.
In the simulation game, real situations can be reconstructed the way they happen in a real city. For example, the effects of a beltway can be simulated in order to assess its consequences for the city’s future. Please refer to how this computer program was used in the Simulation of the City Frauenfeld, which was created for a thesis at the technical college in Rapperswil. For instance, one also learns that urban planning not only has repercussions for neighboring locations, but for more distant locations in a city or entirely unexpected ones as well. For example, it is easy to see what happens when an unprofitable business is liquidated. The liquidation might make other businesses unprofitable. In such a tangible situation the question arises of what is more worthwhile for the future: subsidizing some unprofitable businesses so that an entire network of businesses does not collapse or subjecting the city to a structural change. We have decided to produce a technical book in the form of a computer game, because it is a more suitable format for presenting the problematics and complexities of urban development. In a simulation game, experiences can take place and be visualized in a way that is not possible in the print medium. This computer simulation is interactive literature and is the perfect tool for urban planning. Our scientific association sells the Metropolitan Simulation Game as technical literature, but it is not only for experts but for laymen as well who simply have an interest in urban development. Specialized knowledge is not required for this simulation. You will learn everything about urban development and the principles of urban growth while playing with the simulation.
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Use of the simulation game in the thesis
Simulation of the City Frauenfeld
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| author: Aurelius Bernet |
Design an urban context and analyze how profitable the buildings and functions are. See development potential and use it to optimally develop your city.
Although it is a simulation game, you work with professional tools. A traffic simulation has also been integrated.
Follow your city’s gross national product, as well as its employment and unemployment rate. See the relation between urban organization and how profitable functions are.