I just bought at Barnes & Nobles (Saturday) in their discounted book section, American Cities by Michael Heatley. This is a mostly pictorial review of some 61 cities in the United States ($9.95). The touchstone came up with Jane Jacobs' book, but not Heatley's. Jacobs' book was a significant influence in my thinking about cities. Heatlye's books has a bunch of nice pictures and covers a lot of territory, that I don't see elsewhere. Besides large and medium cities, somehow Vergennes, VT got into the mix, a city with less than 10,000 people. The next smallest city is Butte, MT, and then Charleston, SC. 8 pages for New York, 6 each for Los Angeles and Chicago, 4 for all the others, except Vergennes, which only gets 2.

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Here I am in the leading candidate for 'Most Homicidal City in America': Baltimore. Yes, that Baltimore, not one of those other small ones copping the name for prestige.
Anyway, I note on AOL yesterday that the our Dark Town is no less than third on the national list of 'Most Courteous Drivers', behind Portland-OR and Cleveland-OH, despite the fact that the Underclass only take traffic-signals and stop-signs under advisement while blasting through at high speed. This makes driving in this city much more interesting. It also make drivers noticeably more observant and courteous.
I have lots of books about Baltimore, so if you are interested. let me know.
Keep those Cards and letters coming in!

American Cities is the correct touchstone. Always look at the full list, and at "(others)".

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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.

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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.