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Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition

As 3 urban planners from Vancouver, a coastal, temperate urban paradise, we have absolutely no conception of the challenges of building a city in the desert, real or virtual. What better way to test our skills and knowledge than dropping ourselves in the dunes in Cities Skylines and developing a community from scratch. Join us on our journey for hot urban planning takes and even hotter asphalt roads. Follow the original video series on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JXFTuxvILkY?feature=shared

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00:17:43

The Driver's Dilemma: To Park Or Not To Park | Ep. 24

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/04/02

Confusion abounds regarding Onyx's intentions regarding the campus athletics facilities. Traffic conditions continue to deteriorate across the city, and Stephen explains Traffic Manager's Advanced Parking AI, which forces us to build additional multi-level parking garages in multiple neighbourhoods.Onyx also insists that Church's Texas Chicken is a Canadian company, despite the name. Video: https://youtu.be/ZA55uhqMTqk

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00:17:41

Nothing Beats A NEW MANCHESTER Holiday! | Ep. 23

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/03/31

Over 20 episodes in and we still have no catchy slogan for our region. We devote probably too much time brainstorming taglines with wildly mixed results, including Aaron reaching for ChatGPT for some "inspiration".Meanwhile, Stephen attempts to build a bridge across the highway to Nazca which Onyx immediately seizes to rebuild, only to make it worse. We also finally settle on a name for the county seat: New Manchester.Video: https://youtu.be/FBuakSSWdOo

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00:19:42

Revitalizing The City Center! | Ep. 22

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/03/25

Stephen and Onyx squabble over the location of the university's baseball park. The route alignment for the tram line is finalized.Aaron takes advantage of the glitchy disappearing businesses downtown and begins upzoning blocks for higher density development.The city's first shopping mall is constructed. We also discuss various "niche phases" of our lives, including our shared penny board phase and Aaron's harmonica years.Video: https://youtu.be/wh1aAfQ_1e8

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00:18:49

Our City Becomes A GHOST TOWN | Ep. 21

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/03/20

Aaron installs a skate park in Nazca Heights and Stephen continues expansion of the Manchester neighbourhood. We hold group discussions on the design of the city's first tram line. Meanwhile, a faulty mod causes residences and businesses in downtown to vanish, resulting in empty streets, reduced cash flow, and a sudden drop in population. Video: https://youtu.be/zZ0zogz1sk0

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00:18:07

"Look At All Those Fools (In Traffic)!" | Ep. 20

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/03/18

Aaron adds a mall to the Nazca Heights neighbourhood which severely distorts the terrain, and we experiment with zoning some residences on the steepest roads in the area (which turn out to be very popular).With the residential demand leeched away, Stephen instead investigates traffic issues throughout the city and rages at the stupidity of drivers. We also begin the first steps of the process to relocate town hall to a less busy area.Video: https://youtu.be/RnpA26c9Jyo

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00:15:49

Parks, Campuses, And A BIT OF BRUTALISM | Ep. 19

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/03/17

Issues with water pumps and drains continue to confound us as we struggle to create a lake for our park. With a new adjacent highway interchange in service, Aaron adds additional neighbourhoods to his "Nazca" district.Onyx continues to expand and modify the university campus, while Stephen adds a direct bus service to the outer suburbs and fends off accusations of being a brutalism admirer. Video: https://youtu.be/29fMEvucQEY

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00:18:00

Urban Planning Is Always FUN and EXCITING! | Ep. 18

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2026/01/11

Urban planning isn't always as glamorous as it might seem (did it ever seem glamorous in the first place?) as today we turn into "boardroom planners", exchanging lots of words rather than putting lots of shovels in the ground.We collectively decide to build a medical school for our university, which will produce the doctors necessary to treat sick workers from our new coal power plant. Aaron begins development of a hillside neighbourhood akin to LA's Hollywood Hills (but with more

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00:14:18

"Grids For Me But Not For You" | Ep. 17

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/12/29

We debate the proposed downtown location, settling on a space just beyond the two intersecting highways and north of the oasis.Stephen reveals some light offline building in the form of a new interchange north of the university, and a freeway extension that also bypasses it to the southwest. A site for the airport is roughly planned out, along with some optimal plane spotting locations.Onyx goes back against his usual hatred for grids as he builds his campus and insults Stephen's old

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00:17:20

City Planners: All TALK and No BUILD?? | Ep. 16

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/12/23

In a primarily discussion-based episode, the city expands to the north in order to provide land for the construction of our first university campus.We lose power as our main power plant, the solar tower, goes up in flames. As we extend roads northwards, we debate our proposed locations for the city downtown core.A sync error forces us to delete all cars in the city to resolve it, resulting in a ghost town-like streetscape at ground level.Video: https://youtu.be/Z_y-aNWiZ14

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00:13:40

The CURSED Saguaro Neighbourhood | Ep. 15

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/12/18

Stephen rescues the city from its "vanishing buildings" plague but Onyx alertly notices that we have way more money than we should have (a side effect of the fix) and Stephen pledges to fix that too. Aaron builds another bus line to serve the north edge of the city through to the park. Onyx neglects his lake watch duties and it floods again, even worse than the first time. We begin developing a new district, Saguaro Park, but we immediately start to experience problems glitched pipes,

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00:14:58

A Nice FLOOD To Cool You Down | Ep. 14

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/11/16

The attempt to fill the park lake works too well as we flood the surrounding neighbourhood and damage several buildings, including the park's maintenance depot. Aaron proposes a crosstown bus line once again and Stephen finally builds it, hoping to alleviate the massive traffic jams emerging on our streets. Meanwhile some unknown issue begins to spread across town, causing businesses to rapidly disappear one after another and buildings to eerily flicker until they vanish.Video:

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00:17:27

Traffic Is FINALLY Jammed (And We Don't Know Why) |...

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/11/08

Stephen de-zones all of Manchester industrial area but Onyx forgets to replace it in the temporary district despite being asked to do so. To temper expectations of a quick university build-out on Manchester's former lands, Aaron builds a vanilla university instead as a stop-gap measure. As we survey the city, we notice that severe traffic jams are emerging across the city on all our arterial roads, yet we can't determine what's causing them. Onyx reveals (and is very proud of the fact)

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00:18:40

Cut Healthcare Or Open Some Mines? | Ep. 12

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/10/29

Stephen audits the city's finances and cuts healthcare funding again, only to restore it immediately as everyone gets sick. To boost our revenue, a new mining district is drawn out and we start the relocation of the Manchester industrial zone to this area.Meanwhile, the former land is reclaimed and cleaned for residences. Onyx states he may be on the autism spectrum, while Aaron voices his belief that everyone is on the spectrum in some way. Video: https://youtu.be/4SerjM87xqc

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00:19:14

Math Is HARD For Urban Planners | Ep. 11

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/10/23

Onyx is back from vacation and makes sure that everyone is aware of that. Stephen mass replaces all the US-style roads back to an enhanced vanilla road style due to the US road inventory not having any roads with bike lanes (as should've been expected). We begin to collaboratively plan the eastern neighbourhoods as a mixed residential-commercial district with a separate office park. Onyx attempts to do some math to calculate the water needed to fill his park late but botches it massively.Video:

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00:19:05

Fire Halls: Better To Look Good Or Work Well? | Ep. 10

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/10/23

Onyx builds a pool at his urban park as he still doesn't have the terrain tools to begin his terraforming. We begin building some pockets of high-density commercial and residential zones at key intersections around the city. While placing a fire station down, Onyx bemoans its utilitarian appearance and we debate form vs. function, with Stephen favouring function and Onyx favouring form, with Aaron on the fence.Video: https://youtu.be/B7en9PZMWmE

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00:19:14

Diving Into Some Dangerous Fiscal Thinking | Ep. 9

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/10/23

The city's first official "light offline building" project is revealed by Stephen to be a trumpet interchange on the east side of the city. Onyx tries to work on his park terrain but forgets to turn off a broken mod, resulting in Aaron attempting to take over and failing spectacularly. Pollution begins to grow out of hand in Manchester, forcing us to move residences away. Money also starts to become a serious issue, and we install toll booths and raise taxes temporarily to compensate,

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00:19:50

Fighting Over Cacti and Park Sites! | Ep. 8

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/10/23

Expansion to the east continues as we build out the road grid and map out the new mid-city park site. Onyx stakes claim to the park and takes great exception when Aaron tries to build a road through it. We begrudgingly begin to jointly plan the adjacent community centre and recreation area, including a pool and leisure complex. The subject of the neighbourhood name trips us up and we settle on some generic cacti-related titles.Video: https://youtu.be/vuAEiY4puDk

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00:18:56

5 Floors Or Less Or GTFO | Ep. 7

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/08/02

Technical issues plague our working session with Discord and Windows crashing out together.Due to increasing traffic congestion on the city's sole highway access point, Stephen begins work on a new interchange and roundabout on the east side.Aaron names a new neighbourhood after a cactus. After banning high-rises throughout our new districts, we also install the city's inaugural block of high-density commercial zone in the old city center area.Video: https://youtu.be/IgSFbabCWFI

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00:18:56

To Drill Or Not To Drill... | Ep. 6

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/07/27

After deciding to forgo extracting oil from one of the richest deposits in our region, we begin to have second thoughts as we weigh the economic vs. sustainability benefits for the community.Onyx struggles to build a curved road through the city's newest park. We also reminisce over some classic Mr. Burns insidiousness and bad jokes by Carlos from the Magic School Bus.Video: https://youtu.be/pu0kVidGQNA

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00:18:04

City Expansion Can Be Very Confusing | Ep. 5

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/07/18

A hazy cloud is choking out our fledgling desert town, and it remains to be seen whether its just some fog or something a bit more sinister (aka industrial pollution). As such, we begin preparations to clear Manchester and relocate the industry elsewhere.After some persuasion, Stephen buys two new tiles for city expansion, though Onyx-DOS suffers a fatal error trying to process that info.We begin planning for a mid-city park around the oasis and build some roads to encircle the boundary.Video:

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