Virtual Main Street

27 September 2002 - 6:00am

CommunityViz helps communities plan for the future.

"Like SimCity, the computer game that allows players to build make-believe cities with fictional citizens, CommunityViz is a virtual-reality program. But while SimCity fans deal with monster attacks and nuclear meltdowns, CommunityViz subscribers—regular folks or people on planning commissions—try to envision how a proposed strip mall, for example, might affect a country road or impact education, land-use, utilities, or tax revenues."

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Source: Preservation Online, September 26, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.