This blog is about the link between fictional cities and real cities. What can we learn about the real world from looking more closely at an imaginary city? What makes cities tick? Why do cities end up like they are? How might we be able to make cities better?
The base map for all these conversations can be viewed in various ways. See below:
JPEG (around one-third of original size) – 11MB file
fiction city 
Amazing work. I have been drawing maps of fictional cities for as long as I can remember. How were you able to scan the entire city?
This is a map I drew about 12 years ago. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n155/easky32/CityMap2_zps74ac302d.jpg
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Beautiful work. You might like http://www.davidcharlaphyman.com. It. Has maps I made in the 1970’s.
Wow. How long did the NYC map take to draw? Do you still draw maps?
Is took a few months of evenings after I had finished my homework. Only draw maps these days as a form of doodling. But when I do, I go right back into the zone. DO you live in the New York area? I recognize some NJ names on your maps as well as NYC areas.
I live in Ronkonkoma and work in NYC. I have based my style from the Hagstrom maps and atlases. The older Hagstroms which look hand drawn before they became digital.
Some more maps. http://www.cartographersguild.com/finished-maps/18672-hand-drawn-fictional-city-maps.html
@D.J. wright, Thank you,
You are amazing! And I’m getting really confused with the scale. I have two A1 sheets back and front full of failed math, trying to figure out this dam scale, and put it into imperial units, inches and miles. 1:12,500, is that 1 cm for 12,500 meters? I want to draw a city as well, but I obviously need the scale. So, for each piece of paper, it’s 1 cm for every 125 meters? I assume 1 meter or 1 cm for every 125 km when fully zoomed out on your map, correct? Thank you!