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Links and any kind of info related to disrupted cities.

The city as an actor

Different story and/or artwork where the city is leaving its role of background to become an actual protagonist of the story, imposing its scale, structure and time to the human-like characters.

Darkcity^[1], 1998, by Alex Proyas^[2]

The city is shifting every night, while population is in a catatonic sleep. The whole map and architecture is mixed up in front of our eyes, modifying the perception of structural stability, or at least very slow evolution, commonly inferred by the streets and buildings.

Blame!^[3], 1998 – 2003, by Tsutomu Nihei^[4]

Similar and/or related

Tin reaction to electricity

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zdt-rOB0Y&t=3m43s

• https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

• http://web.siat.ac.cn/~liangliang/publications/2017/polyfit/polyfit.html
• https://github.com/LiangliangNan/PolyFit

• http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940 - Procedural city, complex building structure on grid city map.

• http://www.xceed.hk/work/radiancescape/

• Book: The Role of Material Evidence in Architectural Research (2011) (issuu)

• How the Layout of Urban "Cells" Affects The Function and Success of Neighborhoods

• http://www.newton64.ca/

Concepts

• http://www.redblobgames.com/x/1723-procedural-river-growing/

Tools

• https://mapzen.com/projects/vector-tiles/
• https://github.com/Bercon/BerconMaps
• http://www.darksim.com/html/dt25_description.html
• Vectiler by Karim Naaji - github
• https://www.cgal.org/ - The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

1. ↑ Dark City on imdb
2. ↑ Alex Proyas on imdb
3. ↑ Blame! on wikipedia
4. ↑ Tsutomu_Nihei is a japanese mangaka - wikipedai