The Road to Magnasanti

The Road to Magnasanti (2017)

September 30th, 20170h 15min

Documentary
65%

Overview

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documentary, John Wilson explores how New York City is creeping closer and closer to realizing this fictional metropolis.


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