Counter history: the best board games about cities

From Ulm to New York 1901, board games have embraced stories about urban development – but can they teach us anything useful about planning?In 1666 a terrible fire raged through London, destroying most of the medieval city and consuming more than 13,000 houses, churches and monuments. It is estimated that at least 70,000 of the city’s 80,000 residents had their homes reduced to cinders. In the ashes of this tragedy, London needed to be rebuilt, creating myriad problems and opportunit