Pictures, Photos of Lost Cities
The "Clean City" law passed last year by the populist mayor, Gilberto Kassab, stripped the Brazilian city of all advertising. So how's it looking now?
Forgotten Detroit
JoelKotkin.com - The Myth of 'Superstar Cities'
Sperling's Best Places
world subways
Los Angeles architecture + photo gallery - California
World's Top 100 Most Livable Cities
shrinkingcities : Welcome
Quality of living for sgp? 34th.
City Nicknames
"A player dressed as Pac-man will run around the Washington square park area of Manhattan while attempting to collect all of the virtual "dots" that run the length of the streets."
NetHack's shopkeepers are actually named after real-world towns and villages.
Temptingly numbered, for d400-rolling purposes.
Browse a list, or enter your postcode to, er, find the nearest ones.
"The Anglo Saxons had 25 words for hill, 12 for wood, and 12 for valley."
A directory of projects and platforms.
Harsh and misplaced Russian cities: "The more centralised an empire, the more imagination is required: not just to visualise what might be made of a newly acquired territory, but to believe that the very remotest fringes exist as real places."
"[Seagulls] are becoming very, very aggressive and we need a strategy to deal with this menace in inner cities." ... "They do not show any fear of humans."
Genetically-similar imported ant colonies merge to form a single, giant ant utopia, instead of fighting each other like they're supposed to.