: Another paper (2014) explores how students reflect on creating future, sustainable cities through games like SimCity, using them to understand complex, interdependent urban systems.
: The paper compares the game's mechanics to the ideas of famed urban theorist Richard Florida . It explores how the game’s "Social Energies" (Creativity, Authority, Knowledge, etc.) reflect Florida’s theories about how specific cultural values and "city personalities" attract certain types of workers. SimCity Societies
This paper, authored by and published in ToDIGRA (Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association), analyzes the game as an artifact of contemporary urban planning theory. Key Themes of the Paper : Another paper (2014) explores how students reflect