We need to learn how to make liveable cities

Dr Eric Crampton
NZ Herald
19 March, 2026

Too many of the world’s urban planners grew up playing the city-planning game SimCity. You may have played it too. It’s fun, but it’s a terrible guide to urban planning and to how cities work. It rewards micromanaging the wrong parts of cities.

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