Play the city
Subtitle: games informing the urban development
By: Ekim Tan
Publisher: JAP SAM Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Heijningen, the Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9789490322878
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: City planning; Simulation games
Other titles: Games informing the urban development
Description: A new book by Play the City. From Cape Town to Amsterdam to Istanbul, the book sheds light into the particular applications and outcomes of city gaming in diverse planning and city making regimes worldwide. Following Ekim Tan's PhD work on city gaming, this book has been designed to make her research more accessible to all. The book features a chapter dedicated to unravelling the city-gaming method as developed by the Play the City teams, with case studies from Shenzhen, Cape Town, Amsterdam, Almere and Istanbul. In addition to Play the City's work, the book includes reviews of select influential city-games from around the world, and is enriched with personal interviews from gaming experts such as Eric Gordon, Pablo Suarez and Mohini Dutta.
Notes: Includes index.