Is Detroit The Dieselpunk Mecca?

[velvetcyberpunk]

Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York City are cyberpunk/biopunk. London, Paris, and older New York is steampunk/clockpunk, but where do you think dieselpunk would have likely been set? I think since dieselpunk is all about the petroleum power based technocratic society wouldn't Detroit be the logical place? Chicago, Cleavland, and Cincinnati are also

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[brogaglas]

I have a painting of the Detroit skyline in my room, full of factories and cranes and bridges. On the bottom is the quote, "They didn't want to put a racetrack here." I think the entire setting, and even the history of the city, make it fertile grounds for dieselpunk.

Moscow (both before and after the czars) and prewar Berlin would make excellent settings for the subgenre as well. Berlin would make excellent clockpunk, based on their history, but diesel is just as appropriate.

[velvetcyberpunk]

Absolutely! They have a sad, gritty and very dieselpunk feel. Also Pittsburgh would do well as a dieselpunk setting.

[brogaglas]

Good call. All those old steel mills, the urban decay on the outskirts, the old colonial districts, the dreary atmosphere following the rapid contraction of the steel industry...Yeah, I can really picture that.

[ext_200513]

Once upon a time Birmingham England would have been a contender. Once upon a time....

[velvetcyberpunk]

Ah Birmingham, yes I should have thought of it though.