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Critical Moves Podcast - Strategy VideogamesCity Builders from SimCity to Skylines, Anno to Frostpunk (Ep.59)City builders split into subgenres that barely resemble each other. Cities Skylines focuses on traffic optimization and aesthetic building. Anno centres on island logistics and production chains. Banished and Frostpunk push survival mechanics. Tropico simulates dictatorships. Soviet Republic recreates command economy management. Each game builds around different core systems despite sharing the city builder label.SimCity created the genre in 1989 and dominated until SimCity 4. The series died when it failed to evolve. Cities Skylines launched in 2015 and replaced it by combining Sim City's zoning systems with granular detail and robust modding support through Steam Workshop. Traffic Manager...
2025-12-1241 min
Critical Moves - Strategy GamingCity Builders from SimCity to Skylines, Anno to Frostpunk (Ep.59)City builders split into subgenres that barely resemble each other. Cities Skylines focuses on traffic optimization and aesthetic building. Anno centres on island logistics and production chains. Banished and Frostpunk push survival mechanics. Tropico simulates dictatorships. Soviet Republic recreates command economy management. Each game builds around different core systems despite sharing the city builder label.SimCity created the genre in 1989 and dominated until SimCity 4. The series died when it failed to evolve. Cities Skylines launched in 2015 and replaced it by combining Sim City's zoning systems with granular detail and robust modding support through Steam Workshop. Traffic Manager...
2025-12-1241 min
Citystate#105 Roundabout Rumble | Lawn Gone | Bus FairThe Patricks talk about the relative benefits of buffalo statues and roundabouts in urban neighborhoods before a discussion of native plant cultivation in front yards, and ending on a consideration of fare free bus systems.
2022-02-131h 03Citystate#104 Windows into the Community | Hometown Heroes | Downtown DiscoursePatrick Piuma talks with Danny Seim about the Windows into the Community project, celebrating the many hands it takes to build community through an ongoing portrait collection to activate vacant downtown storefronts, followed by some lively discussion between the Patricks on the ongoing value of the "X person's Louisville" / "Hometown Heroes" banners that have been on prominent tall buildings for around 20 years, and ending up the show with a bit of a wide ranging discussion on issues in revitalization and historic preservation in struggling downtowns.
2022-02-0759 minCitystate#103 Street Views | Trail Mix | Camera ShyCitystate is back, out of hibernation, and ready to talk urbanism, whatever that means. We're joined this week by special guest planner, Rob Monsma, taking at a look at LEO's article on a changing Louisville, discussing ideas for urban trail systems, and thinking about possible support or lack thereof for red light speed cameras.
2022-02-011h 03
Citystate#102 Abandoned Car Reservoir | Sidewalk Cycling | Open Streets 2021The Patricks are BACK. Rejoin us with some light banter on Louisville's glut of long term abandoned wrecked vehicles, and stay for 2 great interviews with Jesus Barajas, discussing his new paper "Biking where Black: Connecting transportation planning and infrastructure to disproportionate policing", and Mike Lydon of Street Plans talking about the state of open streets in 2021.
2021-11-031h 09
Citystate#101 New Urbanisms / Butchertown Background/ Butchertown NowJournalist Mark Long joins the Patricks to talk about Louisville's Butchertown neighborhood past and present, but first we catch up with Patrick Henry patching in live from his family vacation in Seaside, Florida for a chat about New Urbanism.
2021-06-2453 minCitystate#100 Vibing in Origin Park / Rescue Bucks / Urban Government Center BluesWe kick off our 100th episode with an audio journey to the new Origin Park with its executive director, Scott Martin, before diving into a discussion on early community debates on how to use Louisville's American Rescue Plan funding for COVID-19 relief, followed by some chat on this next round of obstacles for the long delayed development of a vacant brownfield in the Paristown Pointe Neighborhood.
2021-06-1849 minCitystate#99 The NIMBY Menace / Action Recommendations / Office SpacedThis week the Patricks talk about a recent Courier Journal oped from the CEO of Greater Louisville Inc discussing the impact of NIMBYism on attempts to develop affordable and dense housing in Louisville, followed by a dive into the new Louisville Downtown Revitalization Team's Action Plan for revitalizing downtown, including some ideas for empty offices.
2021-06-1051 minCitystate#98 Better Spaces for Girls and Women / Cincinnati StreetscapesThe Patricks talk about a couple recent articles on making better public spaces and places for teenage girls and women, and then get into Piuma's new piece on his recent trip Cincinnati.
2021-06-0847 minCitystate#97 Downtown Redux / Journal of Wack Engineering / Olmsted SpeedwaysThe Patricks follow up last week's episode on a new direction for downtown, followed by a discussion on how the profession of transportation engineering continues to fail cities, and also a look at the new trial road re-openings for cars in Olmsted's Cherokee and Iroquois parks.
2021-05-2852 minCitystate#96 Psilocybin Cicadas / Deep Dive on DowntownThis week the Patricks talk about what's right and maybe what's wrong with downtown Louisville.
2021-05-2252 minCitystate#95 Missing Middle & Single Family Zoning / Covid-19 Relief Funds for Louisville / Gun Violence EscalatesThe Patricks coming at you with another 52 solid minutes of chat. This week they are continuing the discussion on higher density forms of housing and why Louisville doesn't have more of it, a little discussion on what we would do the millions of dollars coming Louisville's way via the federal COVID-19 relief funds for cities, and a discussion on new investigative journalism looking at where all the guns saturating the Metro are coming from.
2021-05-1451 minCitystate#94 Louisville Doesn't Want to Be Big? / Housing Boom / Evictions / River Road ImprovementsThe Triple P discuss the idea that Louisville has decided not to be a big city, some of the reasons for the skyrocketing cost of single family housing, the Metropolitan Housing Coalition's new report on evictions during COVID19, and new plans for improving River Road along the Ohio.
2021-05-0749 minCitystate#93 Slint's LouisvilleTalking with Britt Walford and Todd Brashear of Slint about Louisville in the early 90s
2021-04-2951 minCitystate#92 Hacking Street Trees / Electric Vehicle Blues / Aesthetics vs AffordabilityThe Pat-bois talk about spring cold snaps, utility companies hacking up streets trees, why can't we bury power lines, Elon Musk's car tunnel fiasco, Electric Vehicles, and they attempt to get into a great article from Henry Grabar in Slate (April 12, 2021), " 'Good Design' Is Making Bad Cities, but it Doesn't Have To"
2021-04-2345 minCitystate#91 Secret Pop Up Fireworks / Spaces for People without HomesThe Patricks discuss recent revelations on the KY Derby Festival's secret pop up fireworks displays, and consider how cities touting climate action leadership can justify hugely polluting fireworks shows. In the second bit, they talk about efforts to protect unsheltered people in cities and the very high cost of continually clearing camps vs providing services that can help people.
2021-04-1553 minCitystate#90 Closing Park Roads to Cars / Restaurant Problems / Major Infrastructure Proposal / Amtrak TeaserThe Pattys talk about keeping Cherokee, Iroquois parks closed to vehicle traffic, recent issues with restaurants not being able to find staff, Biden's expansive new $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, and Amtrack's proposal to expand U.S. passenger rail over the next 15 years.
2021-04-0849 minCitystate#89 The State of Historic Preservation in Louisville w/ Vital SitesTalking with Charles Cash, Heath Seymour, and Jessica McCarron with Vital Sites, a new voice in this era of asset-based development in Louisville. Vital Sites is a resource for financial assistance, technical expertise, and policy solutions to encourage investment in vacant, undervalued, and endangered properties in Metro Louisville.
2021-04-0256 minCitystate#87 Extra Strength Patricks (x4) St. Patrick's Day EpisodeTalking cities, food, travel and more with our friend and fellow Patrick, Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket. We also discuss some local issues around the potential unwinding of some of our pandemic-induced car-free park in Louisville Metro.
2021-03-1832 min
Blurbs Sell BooksGet to the Meat | BSB101Today on the show, author Jim Heskett and copywriting guru Abigail Dunard tackle an author-submitted blurb to dissect it and understand how to write killer sales copy. To watch video of this episode, view it on Facebook at Best Page Forward. Here are this episode’s read-along selections: --Blurb: Author: Katja Waski Title: Light Me Not (YA Sci-fi Dystopia) “In the wastelands of Europe, the last citystates fight for survival. Seventeen-year-old Noa Engel wants to train as a lightfighter for the Federal Proto Agency...
2021-02-1826 minCitystate#41 A Roundtable Urbanist Discussion on Coronavirus and CitiesA couple weeks into a national pandemic shutdown, we talk with a group of urbanist friends from cities across the country to here how their communities are dealing with Coronavirus and their thoughts on the future. Our roundtable discussion includes Mike Lydon of Street Plans in Brooklyn, Nate Hommel of University City District in Philadelphia, Tommy Pacello of Memphis Medical District Collaborative in Memphis, and Robin Abad Ocubillo of the San Francisco Planning Department in San Francisco.
2020-04-0155 min
Dice Will RollKingmaker Ep. 51: Thrones & TournamentsAre we going to need a vacation from this vacation? It's been a long year for the Kingmakers since the defeat of the reborn Barbarian King, and Kilcela has grown to embrace the status of a true River Kingdom. So much so, that the neighbours are starting to take note of them! An invitation from their rival nation of Pitax brings them to the Rushlight Festival, a fair of fantasies that showcases the best and brightest of the River Kingdoms! But between a citystate of spies, a domain of deposed nobility and a of assassins- can Kilcela stand out a...
2019-11-252h 19
The Beyond Rad PodcastEpisode 52 - Logan Jahr of City StateIf there are bands that you would like to hear on the show or if you’re a band that would like to join me for an interview, please reach out to me at podcast@beyondradentertainment.com.
Logan Jahr is the guitarist and clean vocals for the band City State. City State is a metal core band based out of Grand Rapid, MI, and they are currently preparing to release their first full-length album, entitled Equinox, through Famined Records. If you like what you hear, be sure to pre-save on Spotify or Apple music, or even better, he...
2019-09-0658 min
Radio TycoonRadio Tycoon, el podcast de los juegos de gestión - 1x04Cuarto podcast de Radio Tycoon, el podcast de http://simcitycoon.com centrada en juegos de gestión y construcción. En este podcast contaremos nuevamente con la dirección de Roboron, y las colaboraciones de Kinge y Nino.
En este nuevo episodio, hablaremos de las siguientes novedades en el mundo tycoon:
Kenshi, Rescue HQ - The Tycoon, Transport Services, Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic, Battle Royale Tycoon, Snowtopia Alfa, Tropico 6, y el análisis de la copia perdida de SimCity en Nintento Entertainment System.
También inauguramos una nueva sección: el musicón con una canción inédita de Jerry...
2019-02-211h 25