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Gotham City

A City Journal by k050564

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How I've always read it.

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Railraod iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. Vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy...
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"Lonely hearts and Sunday School teachers like to say that rain is the tears of God ... this rain? If it comes from Him, it's not His tears." - Bruce Wayne (Brian Azzarello) Locations: Gotham City has been written to be in a variety of places like New York State, Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. Looking past the variety of Crises befalling the DC Universe over the years, I think it's important to consider the varied States of Gotham when thinking back to the "Gotham as every city" concept initiated...
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"What good are insights? They only make things worse." - Raymond Carver “The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.” - Mayor Frank L. Rizzo There are a few points that are necessary here: I started reading Batman & Detective when I was six and have basically been reading the Bat Universe since. Secondly, I grew up in Philadelphia. I've lived in Germantown, Fairmount, West Philly (between University City and Southwest), South Philly and finally Center City before...
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So this is something I've always wanted to do and honestly never really had the guts for. Especially when you consider how many beautiul and amazing cities are showcased here. Furthermore, I know that I'm not the first and most likely neither the last to post my rendition of Gotham City. I would also like to point out the folks that have inspired to to take on this mammoth task (I might have gone a little overboard with the map); the SCUBS team (noteably Matt19), Hamish and several other members. Initial...
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