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In November 2025, I was updating a different blog I run and realized a post from 2020 called Games as Education in Planning and Economic Development mentions and links to this site which had just four posts and had been private for some time.
I had been looking at reviving this site because I wanted to write about Farms in the Game SimCity 3000 but ultimately decided to post it on that other site.
I appear to have kept two of the four old posts and I recall editing them some. I then added a few new ones and as of this update, the site has six posts total.
In my teens, I was a "girl gamer" who played things like Dungeons and Dragons but as a mom my kids got me into computer games. SimCity was my gateway drug which I blatantly stole from my children with their blessing because it was one of ten games in a cheap bundle pack and they didn't play it and I wanted to test run the hypothesis that urban planning would be a good career for me.
Playing SimCity made me go "MAPS! GIS! THAT is what an urban planner needs!" and something like 24 years ago I completed a Certificate in GIS from UC-Riverside, which is a highly respected program most people have never heard of. Something like 27 or 28 years after trying SimCity for the first time, I've still never gotten an urban planning type job, but I continue to play city building games.
11 June 2026
I appear to have kept two of the four old posts and I recall editing them some. I then added a few new ones and as of this update, the site has six posts total.
In my teens, I was a "girl gamer" who played things like Dungeons and Dragons but as a mom my kids got me into computer games. SimCity was my gateway drug which I blatantly stole from my children with their blessing because it was one of ten games in a cheap bundle pack and they didn't play it and I wanted to test run the hypothesis that urban planning would be a good career for me.
Playing SimCity made me go "MAPS! GIS! THAT is what an urban planner needs!" and something like 24 years ago I completed a Certificate in GIS from UC-Riverside, which is a highly respected program most people have never heard of. Something like 27 or 28 years after trying SimCity for the first time, I've still never gotten an urban planning type job, but I continue to play city building games.
11 June 2026
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