This article from the New York Times is notable for many things, including its headline: Playing SimCity for Real. Here is the author's take on the roles of planners in the Centennial project: "Planners like Jackson use an array of sophisticated software programs, based on demographic and market research, that enable them to calculate the population and density required to animate new neighborhoods. Such programs also help them figure out how many schools and police stations they may need. To see their work as a real-life version of the computer game SimCity isn’t far off."'animate new neighhorhoods'? I'm not so sure about that.
In the article Robert Lang of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech states that the future of urban development is "remaking the postwar landscape" by transforming our automobile-oriented suburbs and that "Los Angeles is really the nation's largest infill project." LA and other western cities might just provide clues to the future of urban planning as they will run out of space long before the less geographically constrained eastern portions of the United States.
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