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

From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo's fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera's 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 world's 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 world's 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. 

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

From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo's fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera's 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 world's 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 world's 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. 

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

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

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

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Overview

From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo's fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera's 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 world's 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 world's 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. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849948968
Publisher: Batsford, B.T. Ltd.
Publication date: 10/12/2023
Series: Atlases of the Imagination
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 119 MB
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About the Author

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. 


Matt Brown is author of several 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 lives in Hertfordshire and tweets at @mattfromlondon.


Rhys B. Davies lives in Ceredigion, 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. 


Mike Hall is an illustrator and obsessive mapmaker from Harlow, UK. He has been fascinated by maps and architecture for as long as he can remember, spending endless days of his childhood drawing buildings in his home town and maps of places both real and imaginary. A graduate of the University of Westminster, he has created artwork for a broad range of clients in the UK and around the world, including Butlin’s, Harper’s Magazine, Penguin Books and the Royal Horticultural Society. He has lived in the London Boroughs of Brent, Harrow, Islington and Lewisham, and is now based in Valencia, Spain.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

New York 10

Los Angeles 22

San Francisco 34

Washington DC 40

Chicago 46

New Orleans 52

Miami 58

Rio de Janeiro 64

London 68

Paris 80

Venice 86

Berlin 92

Sydney 98

Tokyo 104

Location index 114

Source index 140

About the authors 168

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