How Sim City greenwashes parking

Yes, American cities. Covering places with car parks usually only happen outside cities in Europe. In cities we have car park buildings or underground facilities, which are a lot harder to place. Do you drive around London, Paris or Berlin and see tonnes of car parks? No, you'd probably be bothered by the fact that there are too few!

Also, I think that of all the SimCity 5 problems (does this even count as one), I think this one bothers me the least. In fact, it doesn't at all. I wasn't expecting SimCity 5 to be a perfect simulation of cities, it's a game, it's an abstraction.

Geez, this article makes it sound like we should be bothered about this. I've also seen articles that says we should be bothered about the inflated population numbers, because they don't actually match the number of agents. What.

This must be what it is like for non-programmers to read programming topic blogs that champion knowledge of programming language minutiae and have distain for the use of Excel. If only the non-programmers, non-designers, non-marketing, non-us people would just wake up to the fallacies of the way they view the world.

He is a public transportation planner, whose job involves thinking about real cities, with real city-sized problems, and even wrote a book about it. I wonder, with the number of real city simulation software packages, if the jab at SimCity is just a good inside joke.

It's a game.