Book Review
Abstract
BOOK REVIEW Larry C. Coppard and Frederick L. Goodman, eds, URBAN GAM- ING/ SIMULATION '77, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan School of Education, 1977, 433 pp., $12.00. HOWARD P. ALVIR State of New York Bureau of School and Cultural Research This volume is a hodgepodge. Almost every other page illustrates heterogeneity. It is too apparent that two editors were involved. Judging from the uneven editing, one apparently liked long descriptions of games the other liked pithy summaries, perhaps as found in the annotated bibliography. This albumr seems to have been typeset by a computer that could type right-justified margins but that could not come up with an easy to read typeface or skip enough space between lines to avoid reader eyestrain. This tome has a table of contents that is alphabetical rather than logical or analytical. Only a few of the chapter headings are self- explanatory. Chapter formats are inconsistent. For example, chapters 9 and 10 are carefully formatted (each game is analyzed by comparable parameters), and then chapters 11, 12, and 13 fall apart into a series of one-page summaries most of which are 10 lines or less. So far this text has been described tentatively as