A video game that promotes interactive citizen participation in urban reforms

Published 2020-07-23
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This article describes the creation process of City Co, a video game that aims at raising awareness among the young population about the relevance and implication of territorial development. In order to expose the context and importance of the video game, we first present a description of urban planning and its relationship with each citizen's life, together with a sample of some challenges in urban planning, the benefits of citizen participation, and the use of technological means in territorial development, including the names of some city building video games and some of their contributions to urban thinking. In the text, we also present and analyze the different phases in the structuring of the City Co prototype, whose pilot test is based on the partial plan El Triángulo from the city of Bogotá, Colombia. This, to finally demonstrate and conclude that the technological media contribute to the information and communication of territorial development in urban reforms, and to the generation of interest in knowledge and understanding of urban planning processes. For this reason, it can be said that a video game like City Co, as well as other city building video games, is relevant in the sense that it significantly informs and promotes concerns in the young population about territorial planning.

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