The Politics of SimCity
1996; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s1049096500044061
ISSN1537-5935
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoYears ago, when Robert Caro's magisterial biography of Robert Moses was first published, I remember reading it with mixed emotions. On the one hand, it reinforced every lesson I tried to convey in my course on urban politics. On the other hand, it taught those lessons in a way that was so vivid, and so engaging, that it made my conventional textbooks and lectures seem hopelessly abstract and lifeless. There was only one thing to do: throw out the old texts and make The Power Broker (Caro 1975) the centerpiece of the course. I redesigned everything from scratch. Recently, one of the students in my course on the history of city planning (offered in the University Honors Program at the University of Maryland at College Park) ambled up after class. "Have you ever played sin city?" I thought I heard him ask. He set me straight—"SimCity" he said, enunciating carefully—and then offered a demonstration, during which I was reminded of Caro's book. Here we go again, I though to myself as I purchased the Windows version of the simulation.
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