Play The City | Ekim Tan | TEDxDelftSalon

Ekim Tan is concerned with the increasing number of ghost cities around the world, and strives to solve the problem. She has designed a gaming concept, which helps the various players involved in the urban planning to come to a consensus for future urban development. The games are now being “played” around the world.

She is a PhD graduate from the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and the founder of Play the City.

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cf the master specialist urbanist hand. Is that fair? That's from just after the world war, many men were killed, many wounded, complete cities destroyed, a baby boom - they needed lots of cheep houses, quickly. I think it was assumed they were just temporarily because so cheap nobody would mind living in them shortly, take part in the economic boom, build better houses/quarters and tear down these temporary ones or build over them?

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Who's going to pay for it? The share holders of course who didn't bother to inform themselves about / double check the numbers. I fear that the houses / buildings of such cheap fast building housing projects wth their too cheap materials - too thin outside walls with metal in them are just destroyed by the temperature changes summer/winter especially if nobody is living in them / maintaining them.