Children in 55 countries are redesigning their cities in Minecraft Diana Ionescu Tue, 08/11/2026 - 09:00
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Primary Image Caption Minecraft. Since 2012, a U.N.-Habitat-supported foundation has been using the video game Minecraft to engage students in the urban design process, leading to the building of over 150 real structures in 55 different countries. As Natalie Donbeck explains in the New York Times, organizations around the wor…
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Turckheim, Colmar, Strasbourg Cathedral or Rouffach, Yann Stoecklin, 20, reproduces cities and emblematic buildings of Alsace on his favorite video game: Minecraft. The history enthusiast particularly likes to reproduce them as they were in the past.