The Southside: Jacksonville's First Edge City

[Beloki]

Should we hand out free games of Sim City for those in charge of city planning?
I used to love that game.....I bet some people can learn a great deal about city planning and the need for good public transportation

[stephenc]

Should we had out free games of Sim City for those in charge of city planning?
I used to love that game.....

Thats one of the greatest games EVER made!!

[Joe]

Should we had out free games of Sim City for those in charge of city planning?
I used to love that game.....

Thats one of the greatest games EVER made!!

Although I think it's fair to say that most any city planner under the age of 40 has probably played sim city at some point in their lives.

[thelakelander]

I stumbled across an old version from the early 90s, while going through some old things the other night.  I had a strong urge to fire the thing up again for old times sake.

[Driven1]

i remember the original version...  i played it once after having played SC 2000 or something and it was laughable how simple it was.  but my,my - it WAS cool back in the day. 

i have sc 3000 now, but it is ridiculous how much memory it hogs...once you get to like 150,000 sims, it just is sooooo slow.

[stephenc]

You can play sim city classic online here.

http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php

[Beloki]

You can actually download scenario's of real cities into SimCity 3000.. however.. there isn't a scenario of Jacksonville yet.... Than we would really be able to build and change Jax

[Jason]

Come 'on guys get with the times....  Sim City 4 has been out for a couple years now! 

I love the game and have modeled Jacksonville many times, however, my city always seems to turn out looking like Manhattan surrounded by nature versus a sparse urban core surrounded by suburbs....maybe I should be a city planner? 

[stephenc]

talk about a wild tangent!

[Matt]

the new sim city(societies) focuses more on culture than city....its pretty lame(especially in comparison to SC4)...

[lewyn]

Isn't Southside a little too big geographically to constitute one Edge City?  Compared to Tysons Corner or Bethesda or Rosslyn near DC, it includes a pretty wide expanse.

[Driven1]

lewyn...i would agree completely...the ENTIRE southside is not an edge city...i would say the JTB corridor is an edge city - out to like hodges.

[thelakelander]

Isn't Southside a little too big geographically to constitute one Edge City?  Compared to Tysons Corner or Bethesda or Rosslyn near DC, it includes a pretty wide expanse.

What's known as the entire Southside (ex. as far south as the Avenues to North of Beach)?  Yes.  However, the JTB corridor between Southpoint and SJTC would qualify as a linear Edge City.

[9a is my backyard]

You can play sim city classic online here.

http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php

Why haven't I heard about this until now???  Time to study for my exam waste the rest of my night building...

[Driven1]

we have unknowingly contributed to the delinquency of a (just above) minor.