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  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King is a simple strategy/city-builder simulation game that Squeenix put out as its Wiiware download offering.

    11th April '09 flidgetjerome 2009

  • All that a budding city-builder needed was to decide on street widths and the distance between intersections; the rest followed automatically.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • All that a budding city-builder needed was to decide on street widths and the distance between intersections; the rest followed automatically.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • All that a budding city-builder needed was to decide on street widths and the distance between intersections; the rest followed automatically.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Sponsored by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, the game, called "A Force More Powerful," resembles a cross between a political science model and one of the popular city-builder games.

    Boing Boing: March 27, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The real pioneer never emigrates gregariously; he does not wish to be within "halloo" of his nearest neighbor; he is no city-builder; and, if he does project a town, he christens it by some such name as Boonville or Clarksville, in memory of a noted pioneer: or Jacksonville or

    Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

  • The first murderer was the first city-builder; and a good deal of murdering has been carried on in the interest of city-building ever since Cain's day.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • Any city-builder, by the respectful use of the great fundamental principles of balance, harmony, and unity, cannot help but do on a large scale what the Exposition presents in a more condensed fashion.

    The Art of the Exposition Eugen Neuhaus 1921

  • But Esmond Clarenden foresaw that a military post, when the protection it offers is no longer needed, will not, in itself, be a city-builder.

    Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • Thereupon followed one of the senseless rushes that populate the waste places of the earth and give the professional city-builder his reason for being.

    The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

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