The Road To Magnasanti

Directed by John Wilson · 2017

John Wilson investigates Magnasanti, a gamer's 'perfect' yet nightmarish SimCity metropolis, and wonders whether New York is quietly building its way toward the same fate.

Before 'How To with John Wilson', his wry, unnerving eye for New York's absurdities was already in full force.

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documenta

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