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[bedlamsbard]

Neighborhood porn. Oh, yeah, we're back to channeling Lynch and not Stirling. Stirling does weaponry and fighting, Lynch does city-building. I am afraid to see what rereading Martin might do to Dust; fortunately I don't have my copies of the books with me.

This, of course, means that I'm wandering around the Internet looking at cool neighborhood names. Sooner or later -- probably at the same time we get a map of Narnia -- I'm going to have to make a map of Cair Paravel.

So far, we have the following neighborhoods:
North Bank (poor neighborhood outside the city walls)
South Bank (new money neighborhood outside the city walls)
Riverfront District (on the, uh, riverfront, a fairly dangerous neighborhood)
Mare's Quarter (old city neighborhood by the sea, borders the Riverfront)
Garden District (old city neighborhood, home to nobles who keep houses in the city)
Goldhouse Row (old city neighborhood, home to new-made nobles and well-established merchants)
Liberty Park (borders the Garden District)

Neighborhoods that have been ripped off of New Orleans
Garden District = Garden District (okay. Who didn't see that one?)
Riverfront District/Mare's Quarter = French Quarter
North Bank/South Bank = West Bank/East Bank

Others:
Goldhouse Row = The Gold Coast, Chicago, IL
Liberty Park = Gramercy/Gramercy Park, New York City, NY

I...thought I was more original. Well, neighborhood names.

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[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Neighbourhood names never are original, though. They're either "this bank of the river", "the bit near the forest", or "the boggy bit", named for some notable resident, or else named for the kind of businesses or people there. Sure, some of them look impressive when they're in another language, but they're usually pretty basic when translated.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

This is true. It's like, "How many cities have neighborhoods called Beacon Hill?" A LOT. (Seattle and Boston, just to name a few, and the funny thing is the makeup of both those neighborhoods is pretty much the complete opposite of each other.)