http://www.librarything.com/groups/cityskipcityrelatedbA city-related book list for http://cityskip.org: Plug into CitySkip, a network about all aspects of urban life, from city planning to street art. http://www.librarything.com/topic/16306#June 19<br /># 3 Thanks for the heads up on this Touchstone. Two years ago when I edited my post, I didn't realize that one could lose the "others" Touchstone I had previously worked to get in. Sometimes Touchstones are a real mess to edit, and I will write another message to make my corrections. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:42:14 -0400http://www.librarything.com/topic/16305#July 2007<br />Most people buy the [Michelin Red Guides] because of their restaurant and hotel ratings. I have another reason relating to public transportation history. The Red Guides all have maps of cities in them. Trolley (tram) routes are shown as solid black lines, and trolleybus routes are shown with broken lines. With a set of old Guides, you can trace the demise of trolley systems - followed by the demise of trolleybuses - line by line, in the cities which used to have them. Red Guides for France date back to the 1920's (I have 1929). My 1954 [France Red Guide] has advertisements of guides for Maroc (Morocco), "Nord de la France, Belgique, Luxembourg", Espagne (Spain). I don't know whether there is a good overall history of public transportation in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, but I do have an interesting surrogate.Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:43:29 -0400http://www.librarything.com/topic/15785#July 2007<br />I thought Los Angeles came into existence because it had a very pleasant rural climate, then a million people wanted to share in it....Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:24:00 -0400http://www.librarything.com/topic/15223#June 2007<br />I love reading (watching, etc.) SF about cities that span entire planets. We can talk about the classics like Trantor, and Wikipedia has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis_in_popular_culture">a nice collection</a>, but what are _your_ personal favorites? I am a huge fan of [[Tsutomu Nihei]]'s manga not because of the storyline or the action scenes, but because of the setting he tends to use, the Megastructure - it's simply amazing. But I don't want to restrict the topic to manga (there is some Quite Bad ecumenopolis stuff in manga), or any other specific form of fiction, I'd especially be interested in computer games because I haven't had too much time to play anything in the past year besides the occasional Civ4 round and now I'm feeling really behind on everything ;)Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:22:26 -0400