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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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00:14:58

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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00:13:23

Do US Cities REALLY Have Streets With Trees? | Ep. 4

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/07/03

In a bid to embrace absolute realism, Stephen replaces most of the city's roads with "US-accurate" ones that completely lack grass and trees.A handful of new mods also rename every street with generic American-style names and gives every building a unique address.We determine the urban containment boundary at the base of the nearby sand dune and unintentionally bash the American education system.Video: https://youtu.be/Pi01e_LSUws

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00:17:21

"850K in Our 401k" | Ep. 3

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/06/29

In a reminder to us that we're back to a town's very early days once again, we start to encounter cashflow problems resulting from our late-stage habit from Azur Bay of spending too much, too quickly. Stephen shares a story from cartography class about one of our worst TAs from our university days. We argue over whether it's too early to be adding more schools to our town. Onyx gets everyone to agree to allow him to build a library but overspends and tries to sneak in a second one.Video:

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00:14:30

Building A "Better" Radiator Springs | Ep. 2

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/06/27

If one thing is abundantly clear from our Azur Bay series, it's that none of us knows nearly enough Spanish to name things in a competent manner, and Aaron requests we stick to English names this time. He suggests we name our town after the quaint town from Cars, but we shoot that down.Onyx builds a rural roadside motel which at the moment caters to exactly nobody. The town also gains a town hall which we all know is very important for everyone.Video: https://youtu.be/BKUhRDnkrtQ

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00:19:57

Chasing The Sun: From Shores To Sands | Sierra County 1

Clueless Urban Planners: Desert Edition ·

2025/06/06

Fleeing the ruins of our California-clone city, we land in a vast expanse of desert to a challenging situation: build a city in an unfamiliar environment that none of us have experienced before.It's been a long time since we've had to rely on dirt roads and shoestring budgets, and we must now also contend with a region that lacks water. Let's get to work. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFTuxvILkY

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