GLBS3105 UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL CITIES AND URBAN SPACE

2ND Term, 2019-2020

Assessment Item #1
SimCity BuildIt logbook: Build your city (15%)
11:55 p.m., March 16, 2020

Rules for the assessment:

• The assignment’s focus is not to be a winner in level-up, coins or scale of your cities.
• Yannie would like you to experience how to address different stakeholders in the city.
• To make an equal starting point.
o Start a new game
o No need to use your real money to buy SimCity’s coins.
o No need to join Facebook to link up with other players
o Spend not more than an hour each week to attend your city.
• Just based on all these constraints, build your cities and observe their expansion.

Ground work:
• Set up your own account to SimCity BuildIt. It is strongly recommend you start a new city. But
if you have been a long time player of your game, it is impossible to delete yours and then
start from ground zero. Please first seek approval from course instructor before you start
jotting the city’s development in this exercise.

Assessment aim:
• Based on the development of their cities, students have to record their observations in their
city development logbooks. Students are expected to integrate what they have learnt about
global models of cities with their simulated progress in SimCity BuildIt.

Observation and writing guide for your logbook recording your city’s development:
• Name of your city
• Current region
• Population size
• Level of development
• Level of happiness
• City achievements
• Do you have any divisions of zones or areas in your city? If yes, please make a brief introduction
and explain. If no, please explain.
• Who are the stakeholders in your city?
• Any complaints you have received from your stakeholders?
• How would you handle their concerns?
• Any constraints you have when addressing your stakeholders’ concerns and complaints?
• Critical review:
o To compare your city with Burgess’ concentric zone theory, how similar or different is
your city from Burgess’s theoretical model?
o What is the advantage or disadvantage of Burgess’ model in developing a city?
o What is the advantage or disadvantage of the organization of amenities and buildings
your city?
• Appendix: Screen capture of your city with the billboard information showing level of
 development, level of happiness and population size.
• Extra picture: if there is any special activity on street corner (if you are quick enough), you can
include them in the appendix and then give some elaboration on the events you have captured.

Editorial format:
• Word length: 500-800 words (Single-spaced)

Readings for assessment item #1:

Textbook:
Burgess, Ernest. “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project.” Pp. 91-99.
Park, Robert Ezra. “Human Ecology.” Pp. 83-90.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION
All sources must be referenced with the appropriate formatting. In this course, students are expected
to use American Sociological Association (ASA) style.

Students are to make electronic submissions via VeriGuide. The file names of the assignments for this
course have been standardized in the following format:

[student id]_[student name]_[assignment number]

For example: student’s surname is Chan; Last name is Siu Man. [student name] would be shown as
chan_siu_man. The file name shall be 1155100612_chan_siu_man_1 for assignment number one.

VeriGuide
Assignment Assessment Item File Name Format
Number
1 SimCity BuildIt logbook [student id]_[student name]_1

How to submit the VeriGuide declaration form:

1. Upload your paper to VeriGuide
2. Receive the declaration form
3. Sign and date the form electronically
4. Send the soft copy of your form to this email address: glbs3105@gmail.com

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problematic contents.
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phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case,
agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the
piece of work.

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