When I taught community development and planning courses in the No.1 community department in the world, I became fascinated with the Sim City computer game program. I wanted to use it as a teaching tool. Using the Sim program, students could add, delete and modify variables they chose to affect the mock cities.
LETTER: How The Sims could change U.S. government
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 10:00 a.m. CST;
updated 1:05 p.m. CDT, Monday, August 30, 2010
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