The beleaguered SimCity has suffered a dent in its reputation after a shaky launch. But beyond the server woes and consumer complaints, a jewel of digital urban planning arises.
When I think of the future of maps, I think about my old road atlas, the large, accordion-folded sheet of paper of the Great State of Alabama, covered with county roads and highways and twisty rivulets and interstates like arteries, and how it has long been replaced by my G.P.S. But when Tom Harper,