Wednesday, 12 February 2014

What's your Future City?

Check out the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s Urbanology game

The game seeks to teach players something about urban sustainability by asking them to give “yes” or “no” answers to a series of urban policy questions. It then produces some quick-and-dirty findings about the governing values implied by the answers, and identifies a real city that best matches those values. The eight values at issue are Affordability, Health, Innovation, Lifestyle, Livability, Sustainability, Transportation, and Wealth. Questions include items such as “Will you double the cost of public transport to fund its conversion to a carbon-neutral system?” or “Will you pay for a free bike service in your city”? Working with such yes/no dichotomies is not ideal, but it’s also not unreasonable as a starting point for conversation.

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