UA World-book (was Re: [UA] Re: London (was American attitudes and things))

[Mr. Zero]

You know, 
I bet if we wanted to we could put together a very nice 'weird world of 
UA' sort of guidebook for various countires.  Nothing authoritative 
("Here is te setting, rar."), but rather just the sort of thing we saw in 
the Americanism thread with ideas and common themes, maybe favourite 
myths/folklore? I know I've always wanted to use the New Forest in the UK 
And Blackwood in Germany but don't really know enough about the 
surrounding areas, or other 'primitive reclamation' areas around the 
world...

..or has this already been done?

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Simon RJB wrote:

} 
} --- Mike Lake <mdlake at well.com> wrote:
} 
} 
} >     We took a 9-day London trip a few years ago, and
} > felt no culture shock 
} > at all.  The strongest impression I came away with
} > was a reminder that 
} > London is a living city, and not so dependent on
} > tourism that it's pickled 
} > itself into a huge museum.
} 
} 
} I've always thought of London as a living city.
} British cities always look more organic than the grid
} systems of most American cities, and if you ever see
} sped up footage of traffic moving through London, the
} flow stopping and starting, it's like valves opening
} and closing, vehicles being pumped around is heart.
} It's the sort of city Urbanmancers could really relate
} to.
} 
} That's sort of reawakened my interest in doing a
} UK-based campaign. One of the things that has struck
} me about the recent American Theme mailings is that
} there's always been an obvious underlying theme
} throughout the Unknown Armies products, sometimes
} subtle, sometimes not very subtle at all, but the
} character and personality of America is very present.
} That's in no way a bad thing - in many ways its
} allowed me a look into American culture in ways I've
} never really had the opportunity to before. But it
} would be interesting to see how such themes might
} translate into another setting.
} 
} Perhaps London is too cosmolitan in itself to offer a
} completely different perspective, but an UA take on
} the UK would be fun to do.
} 
} 
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