A Virtual Downtown Minneapolis

If you’re a planner, you’ve heard of SimCity. Chances are, you’ve played it once or twice. But have you heard of Cities: Skyline? A modernized version of SimCity that allows the player to build a city (fictional or real!) from the ground up.

As WCCO MN reports, a local MN student, Matthew Ye, spent 770 hours recreating a highly detailed virtual version of Downtown Minneapolis. Look at the picture below!

Credit - Matthew Ye

Read the article and then check out some information about Cities: Skylines here. It sounds pretty interesting, and maybe it’s how the next generation of planners are getting interested in the field!

-Jess