I am not sure if it is my background in planning or my enjoyment of beating puzzles, but I think this subject matter is exactly on par with this site. Watching the videos, you realize someone perfectly reversed the algorithm that makes Sim City 3000 run. Through trial and error this guy beat the system. I think it takes a lot of intuition to get this completed.

Granted, from a purely logical viewpoint this city wouldn't work, but that's not the challenge. The challenge was to beat Sim City 3000 and he did that. Think of it as trying to get the highest score in Pac Man or Super Mario Brothers. There are competitions on that! And from one screenshot from the videos, it seems as though there are competitions for Sim City 3000 too.

Yes this city wouldn't work in real life. The subway system would be prohibitably expensive; getting all the power from neighboring cities wouldn't work; having groups of buildings to satisfy a citywide requirement wouldn't work. Yet he beat the game. That is all.