You have a budget of 100 units of investment. Where does it go?
You are standing in the mission-control room of a mid-sized city's planning office. The far wall is a single continuous screen: a live map of a real neighborhood with data layers blinking on and off — housing prices, bus ridership, park usage, unemployment. Below it, four consoles glow softly.
The mayor's chief of staff has given you one hundred units of investment and a single afternoon. Housing. Transit. Green space. Jobs. That's it. Every dollar you put in one lever is a dollar you don't put in the others, and every outcome downstream will tell on you in five years whether you were right.
Somewhere in that neighborhood, a kid is walking home from school. A grandmother is waiting for a bus. A store owner is deciding whether to renew a lease. None of them will ever meet you. All of them will live inside the choices you make in the next few minutes.