Serial Consign has posted an excellent short essay on the overlap between representations of cities in video games and representations of cities in architecture:
Exactly what common ground do the modular megastructure of Plug-In City and the instrumentalized cityscapes of Civilization share? Both of these frameworks propose that urban growth is an algorithmic or procedural operation [...]
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