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Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
As 3 urban planners from Vancouver, a coastal, temperate urban paradise, we have absolutely no conception of the challenges of building a city in the desert, real or virtual. What better way to test our skills and knowledge than dropping ourselves in the dunes of Cities Skylines and developing a community from scratch. Join us on our journey for some hot asphalt roads and even hotter urban planning takes. Follow the original video series on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JXFTuxvILkY?feature=shared
Episodes
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Our Urban Planning (Finally) Has Consequences | Ep. 33
We continue to grumble and grapple with difficulties as a result of losing our ability to move buildings once placed. As Aaron finishes up work on his civic…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Today We Become REAL CITY PLANNERS! | Ep. 32
With the multiplayer mod introducing fresh glitches to our city, we tread carefully as we continue expanding both northwards towards downtown and southwards up…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Build It Like PRUITT-IGOE! | Ep. 31
Stephen explains his new transit design philosophy and rants about taxis stopping in the middle of the road. Onyx and Aaron explore some light offline building…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Inaugurating Our First METRO LINE! | Ep. 30
The city's first metro line is finally put into service and becomes an instant smashing hit, immediately exceeding a weekly ridership of 1000 passengers. The…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Park And Riding Our Way To IMPROVED TRAFFIC FLOW! | Ep. 29
Traffic flow is further improved with the opening of Stephen's offline park and ride center coinciding with an extended tram line. At Onyx's insistence…
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Urban Planner Causes A SUPERNOVA In Our City! | Ep. 28
Onyx builds an ill-advised road (both in theory and in practice), which causes an explosive supernova to occur near the university. Stephen unveils a new…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
EMINENT DOMAIN Saves The Day | Ep. 27
The relief east-west road is completed and immediately makes a positive impact on the city's traffic issues. Stephen gets his wish for another major…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Who Doesn't Love A GOLF COURSE? | Ep. 26
Aaron and Onyx are in awe as Stephen unveils the result of offline blood, sweat, and tears: a new 9-hole country club golf course and driving range in the…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Our Education System Is A House Of Cards | Ep. 25
In a "build and yap" session, the city deals with a dangerously below average school graduation rate, along with a severe shortage of students entering the…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
The Driver's Dilemma: To Park Or Not To Park | Ep. 24
Confusion abounds regarding Onyx's intentions regarding the campus athletics facilities. Traffic conditions continue to deteriorate across the city, and…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Nothing Beats A NEW MANCHESTER Holiday! | Ep. 23
Over 20 episodes in and we still have no catchy slogan for our region. We devote probably too much time brainstorming taglines with wildly mixed results…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Revitalizing The City Center! | Ep. 22
Stephen and Onyx squabble over the location of the university's baseball park. The route alignment for the tram line is finalized. Aaron takes advantage of the…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Our City Becomes A GHOST TOWN | Ep. 21
Aaron installs a skate park in Nazca Heights and Stephen continues expansion of the Manchester neighbourhood. We hold group discussions on the design of the…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
"Look At All Those Fools (In Traffic)!" | Ep. 20
Aaron adds a mall to the Nazca Heights neighbourhood which severely distorts the terrain, and we experiment with zoning some residences on the steepest roads…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Parks, Campuses, And A BIT OF BRUTALISM | Ep. 19
Issues with water pumps and drains continue to confound us as we struggle to create a lake for our park. With a new adjacent highway interchange in service…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Urban Planning Is Always FUN and EXCITING! | Ep. 18
Urban planning isn't always as glamorous as it might seem (did it ever seem glamorous in the first place?) as today we turn into "boardroom planners"…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
"Grids For Me But Not For You" | Ep. 17
We debate the proposed downtown location, settling on a space just beyond the two intersecting highways and north of the oasis. Stephen reveals some light…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
City Planners: All TALK and No BUILD?? | Ep. 16
In a primarily discussion-based episode, the city expands to the north in order to provide land for the construction of our first university campus. We lose…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
The CURSED Saguaro Neighbourhood | Ep. 15
Stephen rescues the city from its "vanishing buildings" plague but Onyx alertly notices that we have way more money than we should have (a side effect of the…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
A Nice FLOOD To Cool You Down | Ep. 14
The attempt to fill the park lake works too well as we flood the surrounding neighbourhood and damage several buildings, including the park's maintenance…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Traffic Is FINALLY Jammed (And We Don't Know Why) | Ep. 13
Stephen de-zones all of Manchester industrial area but Onyx forgets to replace it in the temporary district despite being asked to do so. To temper…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Cut Healthcare Or Open Some Mines? | Ep. 12
Stephen audits the city's finances and cuts healthcare funding again, only to restore it immediately as everyone gets sick. To boost our revenue, a new mining…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Math Is HARD For Urban Planners | Ep. 11
Onyx is back from vacation and makes sure that everyone is aware of that. Stephen mass replaces all the US-style roads back to an enhanced vanilla road style…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Fire Halls: Better To Look Good Or Work Well? | Ep. 10
Onyx builds a pool at his urban park as he still doesn't have the terrain tools to begin his terraforming. We begin building some pockets of high-density…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Diving Into Some Dangerous Fiscal Thinking | Ep. 9
The city's first official "light offline building" project is revealed by Stephen to be a trumpet interchange on the east side of the city. Onyx tries to work…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Fighting Over Cacti and Park Sites! | Ep. 8
Expansion to the east continues as we build out the road grid and map out the new mid-city park site. Onyx stakes claim to the park and takes great exception…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
5 Floors Or Less Or GTFO | Ep. 7
Technical issues plague our working session with Discord and Windows crashing out together. Due to increasing traffic congestion on the city's sole highway…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
To Drill Or Not To Drill... | Ep. 6
After deciding to forgo extracting oil from one of the richest deposits in our region, we begin to have second thoughts as we weigh the economic vs…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
City Expansion Can Be Very Confusing | Ep. 5
A hazy cloud is choking out our fledgling desert town, and it remains to be seen whether its just some fog or something a bit more sinister (aka industrial…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Do US Cities REALLY Have Streets With Trees? | Ep. 4
In a bid to embrace absolute realism, Stephen replaces most of the city's roads with "US-accurate" ones that completely lack grass and trees. A handful of new…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
"850K in Our 401k" | Ep. 3
In a reminder to us that we're back to a town's very early days once again, we start to encounter cashflow problems resulting from our late-stage habit from…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Building A "Better" Radiator Springs | Ep. 2
If one thing is abundantly clear from our Azur Bay series, it's that none of us knows nearly enough Spanish to name things in a competent manner, and Aaron…
- Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition
Chasing The Sun: From Shores To Sands | Ep. 1
Fleeing the ruins of our California-clone city, we land in a vast expanse of desert to a challenging situation: build a city in an unfamiliar environment that…