Inspirational Maps - Pulp Age

[pompe]

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[sartorias]

I love old city maps, and for exactly the reasons you name.

[madwriter]

I'd always enjoyed collecting pre-war (be that pre-WWI or -WWII) picture books and postcards...it didn't really occur to me to grab street-level maps too, just the ones I got out of old issues of National Geographic.

[alaneer]

That's cool. I have paper maps of Paris, Budapest, Salzburg, and Wienne. I use them for when I write.

[pompe]

I always try to bring home maps from cities I've been to, as some sort of souvenir.

[rfmcdpei]

That sort of cognitive dissonance features in Alistair Reynolds' Century Rain, when a character is given a map of Paris: "Where are all the expressways?"