Canada’s cities didn’t drift into crisis. We legislated scarcity, shifted costs to municipalities, and called it inevitable. This essay maps the choices — and the reforms that could make the urban promise real again: supply, non‑market housing, zoning reform, and transit that actually moves people.

A critical essay on Canada’s urban crisis:

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-canadian-urban-condition

#Urbanism #CanadaHousing #HousingPolicy #ZoningReform #Transit #Homelessness #NonMarketHousing #CityBuilding

Building Game Sounds #Soundeffects #Building #Buildinggame #Citybuilding #City #Citybuilder #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/building-game-sounds-197640

🕹️ Title: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (with OpenRCT2)
🦊️ What's: A construct. & manag. sim game & a libre engine
🏡️ https://openrct2.org
🐣️ https://github.com/OpenRCT2
🔖 #LinuxGaming #Management #CityBuilding
📦️ #LibreEngine #CommercialAssets #Bin #Arch #RPM #Flatpak #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 0.4.32
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://openrct2.io/download/changelog
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/releases.atom

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/1oXO9Os9cbg
🩳️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/x4MNPfqnIGY
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/f--LjAnoSKo

🕹️ Title: Widelands
🦊️ What's: A libre city building game with RTS elements inspired by Settlers 2
🏡️ https://wl.widelands.org
🐣️ https://github.com/widelands
🔖 #LinuxGaming #Flagship #CityBuilding #Management
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 1.3.1
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://www.widelands.org/news/2026/Feb/22/widelands-1-3-1-released/
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/116109283547429776

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/rXD93g7J11g
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/uvdgAWCmv1A

🕹️ Title: HexLands
🦊️ What's: A turn-based roguelike city-building game set on procedurally generated medieval islands
🏡️ https://www.hexlands.com/
🐣️ -
🔖 #LinuxGaming #CityBuilding #DeckBuilding #Medieval
📦️ #Commercial #Bin
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 0.41.3
🕵‍ 0.41.3: 👏️⭐⭐⭐⭐
🦣️ From: https://holarse.de/news/wochenendr%C3%BCckblick_2026_7

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/U-gG_ab7xvI
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/ohFLtXDElu8
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/7RTHsqbhrHc
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/qqY276YinxI
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/sk9PD94lE6w

🕹️ Title: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (with OpenRCT2)
🦊️ What's: A construct. & manag. sim game & a libre engine
🏡️ https://openrct2.org
🐣️ https://github.com/OpenRCT2
🔖 #LinuxGaming #Management #CityBuilding
📦️ #LibreEngine #CommercialAssets #Bin #Arch #RPM #Flatpak #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 0.4.31
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://openrct2.io/download/changelog
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/releases.atom

🏝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/1oXO9Os9cbg
🩳️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/x4MNPfqnIGY
🕵️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/f--LjAnoSKo

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate

#HackerNews #medievalgames #citybuilding #historyinaccuracy #gaminghistory #video #games