"- sorry?" says the blue.

"Hi, I'm Fika. What do you do?"

"You want my - jobname? -"

"Sure!"

"It's Chiss."

"Oh, I meant what do you do for your job. I don't know what Chiss means."

"It means 'campus'. I do city planning."

"Ooh! How'd you do that?"

"Uh, why do you want to know?"

"So I can try it!"

"- I don't think you can really just... try... city planning."

"Why not? I've planned cities before."

"- I guess if you don't actually want to build it I could let you play with my planning software?"

"I can come up with new places that are good for amaliens and Amntans in the city, cause right now lots of the places only seem good for Amentans."

"Don't you have the whole rest of the planet for whatever amaliens want?"

"Cept when what we want is to play with Amentans and help them and do jobs and things here!"

"Also would be good for their to be places where both amaliens and Amentans could live to-gether I think. Not sure why I think that."

"- well, you can play with the software and if what you come up with seems like a good idea I guess we can consider implementing it."

"Yay!"

Chiss leads Fika to her apartment and shows her Metromapper 5.

Oooh! Fika investigates what all the different bits of th soft-ware do and what sorta things she can make.

Metromapper 5 is professional software for placing types of developments and modeling the resulting patterns of traffic and lifestyle according to some algorithmic approximations of the distribution of Amentan behavior. You can have it show you what happens if an improbable number of elevators break or if a subway station shuts down or if there's a disease outbreak and how this interacts with the city structure. It does have mods available so you can e.g. prevent it from assuming all your population belongs to one of the standard Amentan castes, though.

Fika is tries figuring out how to model amaliens who don't use ele-vetors and like climbing, and whether this could make it really easy to add amaliens to places without using up much space - and maybe even making some-things cheaper to fix even if they're up high. 

She will have to mod Metromapper 5 pretty heavily to get jungle gym elements in zones that are not playgrounds but she can do it. Chiss watches her in bemusement.

She tries to do a bunch of it with beams and really big window ledges and things.

That's a bit finer-grained than Metromapper really supports, it's not an architecture program really.