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Showing posts with label fictional histories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fictional histories. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Consider the Arcologies


1.

In the computer game SimCity 2000, there are four pixelated structures that are the apex of the metropolis. They are called "arcologies". An arcology is a real architectural concept with its own long history, that his been described with respect to the game. It is a self-contained city-building of some 150,000 pixelated souls. I am, in this particular moment uninterested in the pre-history of the buildings, but rather taken with what it is like inside them, which you must make up yourself, as the game never shows you. So here, I am going to be an impossible flâneur.