Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney. Join me tonight. We welcome back to our friend, freelance writer, T.J. Hafer.

Hello, hello. And we're also joined by Justin Rosniak, known as Do Not Eat on YouTube. Justin, great to have you on the show. Oh, it's good to be on the show. I'm excited. I never podcasted before. Well, this is the first time we've ever had someone quite so knowledgeable with the topic at hand,

I suspect.

Justin, you're sort of known for a series of videos you've done on cities and urban planning around city skylines.

And before we dig into tonight's topic exactly with city skylines industries,

I thought maybe you could tell us a little bit about yourself where the interest comes from and where the body of knowledge comes from.

So I've been interested in urban planning for a long time.

It actually goes back to, you know, playing SimCity, SimCity 4 especially.

It was way back in the day of when Simtropolis was still a big site.

And I'm actually not the first person to do the sort of thing that I'm doing right now.

There was someone else who wrote

a series back then. It was a text and screenshot-based series called Adventures in New Urbanism,

which kind of explained how suburbs work and why suburbs are kind of organized in a really, really crappy car-oriented fashion and how, you know,

traditional city planning or has it's called new urbanism now. New urbanism is the old urbanism.

It just explained why living in the suburbs was so unsatisfactory in ways I couldn't articulate before.

And then I realized,

I should probably get into the city planning stuff.

And then try to go to school for architecture,

they wouldn't take me.

So I went to school for civil engineering,

which is,

and somehow managed to graduate and then couldn't get a job.

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