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creators_name: Fouraschen, P.F.M.
title: Playing with the future - Opportunities and risks of city building simulation and strategy games in spatial and urban planning
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full_text_status: public
abstract: City building simulation and strategy games have become more and more popular the last decades. At the same time, serious gaming is gaining momentum in various fields of study. Temporary spatial and urban planning issues are becoming more integrated and complex, while the public participation, and a representative one, becomes harder to achieve. In light of these developments, this research sets out to explore how city building simulation and strategy games can be used in spatial and urban planning. A game experiment was conducted to find out how the participants reacted to playing a city building simulation and strategy game in a serious way. The lessons that emerge from the experiment are that games are fun to play, but should be of moderately complexity in order to provide insights in topics as complexity and decision-making processes.
date: 2016
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EIP
tutors_name: Kann, F.M.G. Van
tutors_name: Busscher, T.
keywords_local: Transport Tycoon
keywords_local: participatory planning
keywords_local: city building and simulation games
keywords_local: serious gaming
keywords_local: experimental research.
language_iso: en
titleorder: Playing with the future - Opportunities and risks of city building simulation and strategy games in spatial and urban planning
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date_of_import: 2020-04-22
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date_issued: 2016-01-01
citation:   Fouraschen, P.F.M.  (2016) Playing with the future - Opportunities and risks of city building simulation and strategy games in spatial and urban planning.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1094/1/Masterthesis_P.F.M._Fouraschen_1.pdf