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Atlas of Imagined Cities Matt Brown

Atlas of Imagined Cities By Matt Brown

Atlas of Imagined Cities by Matt Brown


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Summary

Locations from TV shows, movies, books and computer games are plotted on maps of real-life cities, helping you pinpoint where these fictional worlds are set in real life.

Atlas of Imagined Cities Summary

Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who lives where in TV, books, games and movies? by Matt Brown

From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemos fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Operas Parisian lair to scenes from Grand Theft Auto in LA, this is an amazing atlas of imaginary locations in real-life cities around the world. Locations from film, TV, books, computer games and comics are ingeniously plotted on a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps.

Feauturing 14 of the worlds greatest cities, the maps show exactly where your favourite characters lived, loved, worked and played, and where iconic scenes took place. The locations have been painstakingly tracked down, mapped, annotated and wittily divulged by the authors, and an extensive index helps you find them all. Within the pages of this book, you'll discover:

Where in London super-spies James Bond and George Smiley are neighbours.

The route of the exciting San Francisco car chase in Bullitt.

The Tokyo homes of all the magical girls from the classic Sailor Moon anime.

And many more fascinating locations drawn from the worlds imagination.

Accompanying the maps are illuminating essays that explain how the authors came to their decisions, along with explorations of the key locations and fun timelines of imaginary events. Find out how to get to Sesame Street, where to join Starfleet and thousands of other places besides, in this indispensable guidebook to all those places you always wanted to visit if only they were real.

Atlas of Imagined Cities Reviews

Oh what fun! allows access to a creative world and is overflowing with information and beautifully drawn maps. LoveReading
Brimful of intriguing curiosities the maps are a thing of beauty Perceptive Travel

About Matt Brown

Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, using his trademark humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He has served as editor and editor-at-large of Londonist.com, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. He is tweeting at @mattfromlondon.

Rhys B. Davies hails from South Wales. As a child of the nineties, he was reared on a mix of Saturday-morning cartoons, blockbuster films and all manner of literature, coalescing into a deep love of fiction and the worlds that imagination can build.

Additional information

NGR9781849947787
9781849947787
1849947783
Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who lives where in TV, books, games and movies? by Matt Brown
New
Hardback
Batsford Ltd
2023-10-12
168
N/A
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