UrbanMage/Bestiary
From Barbelith
Being a summary of some of the strange sights in the modern city, and suggestions to the possible import of the same.
(What's an urban gnome/undine when it's at home?, suggestions...)
I'm just brainstorming ideas in the hope of inspiring peoples imaginations here.... add add add! improve improve!
Some should almost certaily get their own node or at least a cross reference.
More than one definition is fine, even (especially) if they are contradictory or conflicting.
- pigeons
- telephone boxes
- telephone poles
- pylons
- electricity transformers
- stray dogs
- tramps (hobos)
- cars
- litter
- light pollution
- fag butts (cigarette ends)
- cracks in concrete
- neon lights
- street sweepers
- dog shit
- manhole covers (and all other metal covers in streets)
- road signs
- traffic lights
- cats
- foxes
- flying ants
- lollypop ladies
- police
- taxis
- public toilets
- traffic cameras
- walls
- road markings
- cul-de-sacs (dead end roads)
- suburbs
- motorbikes
- push chairs
- skate boards
- flyers
A comunication from some god? look for hidden messages!
- big issue sellers
- cigarettes
- pubs
- shopping centres (malls)
- supermarkets
- lost & found money
- buskers and other street performers
- buses
- billboards
- grass verges
- rats
- building sites
- (really big) cranes
- red light areas and their denizens
- take aways
- street lamps
- sad parts of otherwise stolen bikes still chained to things
- car parks
- play grounds
- level crossings (where rail crosses roads)
- paving (cobbles, brick, slab etc)
- public art
