Play the city : games informing the urban development / Ekim Tan.

Main entry:

Tan, Ekim, author.

Title & Author:

Play the city : games informing the urban development / Ekim Tan.

Publication:

Heijningen, the Netherlands : JAP SAM Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Gaming : an ancient method new to the twenty-first century city -- Play the city game manual -- Reports from the ground -- City gaming evolution -- City games globally -- New horizons for city gaming -- What experts think.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9789490322878 (paperback)
9490322873 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Simulation games.
Urbanisme Jeux de simulation.
Stadtplanung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317805
Call No.: 317805
Status: Available

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