North America.
Prairie grids, harbour towns and the long drive between them.
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North America51.04° N 114.07° W
Calgary
Canada
Where the prairie grid runs into the river.
North America40.71° N 74.01° W
New York
United States
Five boroughs, one sentence.
North America30.27° N 97.74° W
Austin
United States
Where the river slows into a lake and summer evenings run long.
North America41.88° N 87.63° W
Chicago
United States
Lake on one side, grid to the horizon, and an alley behind almost every block.
North America39.74° N 104.99° W
Denver
United States
A tilted grid downtown, a straight one everywhere else, and the mountains to the west.
North America44.65° N 63.58° W
Halifax
Canada
Fog in the morning, a ferry across the harbour, and steep streets down to the water.
North America34.05° N 118.24° W
Los Angeles
United States
Hills, long boulevards, and the ocean at the end of the drive.
North America45.50° N 73.57° W
Montréal
Canada
Outside staircases, green back lanes, and a mountain in the middle.
North America45.42° N 75.70° W
Ottawa
Canada
Two rivers, one canal, and a city that goes outside in February anyway.
North America47.61° N 122.33° W
Seattle
United States
Water on both sides, hills in between, and rain that's mostly drizzle.
North America43.65° N 79.38° W
Toronto
Canada
A lake for a horizon, a grid of main streets, and neighbourhoods inside neighbourhoods.
North America49.28° N 123.12° W
Vancouver
Canada
Cherry blossom on the side streets, rain on the windows, and snow on the far hills.
North America53.55° N 113.49° W
Edmonton
Canada
A river valley full of trails, and a winter that makes everyone a little tougher.
North America49.90° N 97.14° W
Winnipeg
Canada
Two rivers, wide old streets, and a skating trail on the ice when it's cold enough.
North America46.81° N 71.21° W
Québec City
Canada
Stone walls, steep stairs down to the river, and snow that turns the old town quiet.
North America48.43° N 123.37° W
Victoria
Canada
Harbour light, gardens in February, and a breakwater walk out into the strait.
North America52.13° N 106.67° W
Saskatoon
Canada
A river through the middle of town, a city of bridges, and sky in every direction.
North America50.45° N 104.62° W
Regina
Canada
A lake in the middle of town, elms over the old avenues, and a horizon that goes forever.
North America47.56° N 52.71° W
St. John's, NL
Canada
Houses in every colour, a harbour through a narrow gap, and fog with a sense of humour.
North America45.96° N 66.64° W
Fredericton
Canada
A slow river, a tree-shaded green, and an old railway bridge you walk across.
North America60.72° N 135.06° W
Whitehorse
Canada
A green river, long June evenings, and the northern lights over the clay cliffs in winter.
North America62.45° N 114.37° W
Yellowknife
Canada
Rock, lake and long light, and an old town of houseboats and floatplanes.
North America50.12° N 122.96° W
Whistler
Canada
Two mountains, a chain of lakes, and a village where the paths run to the lifts.
North America37.77° N 122.42° W
San Francisco
United States
Fog over the hills, painted houses, and water on three sides.
North America42.36° N 71.06° W
Boston
United States
Brick sidewalks, a harbour full of islands, and old streets that refuse to run straight.
North America38.91° N 77.04° W
Washington DC
United States
Diagonal avenues over a grid, row houses with porches, and two rivers meeting.
North America39.95° N 75.17° W
Philadelphia
United States
Row houses to the horizon, a square in every quarter, and two rivers holding it all.
North America45.51° N 122.67° W
Portland
United States
Small blocks, big trees, and bridges stitching east to west.
North America36.16° N 86.78° W
Nashville
United States
The Cumberland running through, front porches, and a song in every other bar.
North America25.76° N 80.19° W
Miami
United States
Bay light, palm shadows, and a cafecito window on every block.
North America44.98° N 93.27° W
Minneapolis
United States
Lakes inside the city limits, a river with a waterfall, and a skyway for January.
North America32.72° N 117.16° W
San Diego
United States
A sheltered bay, a big park, and a canyon just beyond the back fence.
North America33.75° N 84.39° W
Atlanta
United States
Trees over everything, old rail lines turned into trails, and a hill every few blocks.
North America40.44° N 80.00° W
Pittsburgh
United States
Three rivers, a lot of bridges, and stairs where other cities would put a street.
North America29.76° N 95.37° W
Houston
United States
Bayous, live oaks, and a skyline that appears out of nowhere.
North America42.33° N 83.05° W
Detroit
United States
Wide avenues fanning out from downtown, and Canada to the south across the water.
North America39.29° N 76.61° W
Baltimore
United States
Rowhouses with marble steps, a working harbour, and crabs on newspaper in August.
North America43.04° N 87.91° W
Milwaukee
United States
Three rivers, a big lake, and cream-coloured brick on the old corners.
North America29.95° N 90.07° W
New Orleans
United States
A bend in the river, iron balconies, and a brass band around the next corner.
North America33.45° N 112.07° W
Phoenix
United States
A flat valley floor, a precise grid, and canals that follow much older ones.
North America35.08° N 106.65° W
Albuquerque
United States
Cottonwoods on the river, pink mountains at dusk, and a compass point in every address.
North America32.76° N 97.33° W
Fort Worth
United States
A bluff over the Trinity, a cattle-trail past, and the prairie opening to the west.
North America42.65° N 73.76° W
Albany
United States
A tidal Hudson, Dutch creek names, and row houses running west from the river.
North America41.77° N 72.67° W
Hartford
United States
A river buried under the streets, and a name that means where the deer cross.
North America36.07° N 79.79° W
Greensboro
United States
A courthouse square at Elm and Market, and the Piedmont rolling off on every side.
North America61.22° N 149.90° W
Anchorage
United States
Between the inlet and the mountains, with fireweed telling you when the snow is due.
North America41.82° N 71.41° W
Providence
United States
Two rivers making a third, and a thousand streets wandering off from old squares.
North America43.66° N 70.26° W
Portland, Maine
United States
A peninsula in Casco Bay, more water than land, and neighbourhoods named for corners.
North America21.31° N 157.86° W
Honolulu
United States
A sheltered harbour, dry summers in the rain shadow, and valleys running inland.
North America19.71° N 155.09° W
Hilo
United States
The windward side of the island, where it rains on most days of the year.
North America20.88° N 156.68° W
Lahaina
United States
Once called Lele, for its breadfruit trees, and once the capital of a kingdom.
North America33.83° N 116.55° W
Palm Springs
United States
Fan palms, four mountain ranges, and a low roofline against the sky.
North America35.47° N 97.52° W
Oklahoma City
United States
Low sandstone hills, two kinds of oak, and a river that splits the city in two.
North America39.77° N 86.16° W
Indianapolis
United States
A mile-square plan around a circle, on a flat plain the ice sheets left behind.
North America42.44° N 76.50° W
Ithaca
United States
At the head of a long lake, with streams cutting down through every hill.
North America43.09° N 79.08° W
Niagara Falls
Canada
On the west bank of the river, where Lake Erie pours down toward Lake Ontario.
North America28.54° N 81.38° W
Orlando
United States
Hundreds of lakes, a checkerboard of city limits, and an afternoon storm on cue.
North America63.75° N 68.52° W
Iqaluit
Canada
Place of many fish: its name in Inuktitut, given back in 1987.
North America43.48° N 110.76° W
Jackson Hole
United States
A trappers' hole in the mountains, with the Snake River threading the length of it.
North America52.87° N 118.08° W
Jasper
Canada
Where the Miette meets the Athabasca, with mountain ranges on every side.
North America40.65° N 111.50° W
Park City
United States
An old silver-mining town above 7,000 feet, at the top of a long basin.
North America30.33° N 81.66° W
Jacksonville
United States
A cattle crossing on a wide river, grown into a city of 900 square miles.
North America58.30° N 134.42° W
Juneau
United States
A capital with no road out, ice fields above town, and rain on most days.
North America36.17° N 115.14° W
Las Vegas
United States
Spanish for the meadows: springs on a desert floor, ringed by mountains.
North America39.53° N 119.81° W
Reno
United States
A river crossing in the Truckee Meadows, where the Sierra gives way to the Great Basin.
North America40.76° N 111.89° W
Salt Lake City
United States
A grid of numbered streets between a salt lake and the mountains.
North America39.10° N 94.58° W
Kansas City
United States
Where the Kansas River meets the Missouri, with boulevards and fountains in between.
North America38.25° N 85.76° W
Louisville
United States
A city that grew at the falls of the Ohio, on wide flat ground by the river.
North America38.04° N 84.50° W
Lexington
United States
Bluegrass all round, horse farms at the edge of town, and a creek under Vine Street.
North America35.96° N 83.92° W
Knoxville
United States
Where two rivers meet to start the Tennessee, in a long valley of parallel ridges.
North America43.16° N 77.61° W
Rochester
United States
A river through the middle of town, and one of the Great Lakes for a north shore.
North America44.39° N 68.20° W
Bar Harbor
United States
A sand bar to Bar Island at low tide, and the mountains Champlain called barren.
North America42.28° N 83.74° W
Ann Arbor
United States
Named for two Anns and their bur oaks, with the Huron River curving through.
North America35.78° N 78.64° W
Raleigh
United States
Oak-lined streets on a grid around the Capitol, where the Piedmont meets the plain.
North America35.60° N 82.55° W
Asheville
United States
Where the Swannanoa meets the French Broad, high in the Blue Ridge.
North America37.54° N 77.44° W
Richmond
United States
A bend in the James at the fall line, and a town grid laid out in 1737.
North America24.56° N 81.78° W
Key West
United States
An island where the Atlantic meets the Gulf, closer to Havana than to Miami.
North America37.34° N 121.89° W
San Jose
United States
A valley city with mountains on three sides and the bay at its northern tip.
North America38.58° N 121.49° W
Sacramento
United States
Two rivers meeting on flat valley ground, under a canopy of street trees.
North America38.94° N 120.02° W
Lake Tahoe
United States
Seventy-two miles of shoreline around one deep blue lake, with towns all round it.
North America34.42° N 119.70° W
Santa Barbara
United States
A south-facing coast with the Santa Ynez Mountains rising right behind it.
North America36.27° N 121.81° W
Big Sur
United States
The big country of the south: mountains rising straight out of the Pacific.
North America51.18° N 115.57° W
Banff
Canada
A town above Bow Falls, where the Bow and Spray rivers meet inside a national park.
North America45.85° N 84.62° W
Mackinac Island
United States
An island about eight miles round in the straits, getting by without cars.
North America32.22° N 110.97° W
Tucson
United States
A desert plain ringed by five mountain ranges, with two rainy seasons a year.
North America35.69° N 105.94° W
Santa Fe
United States
A plaza laid out by the Laws of the Indies, and flat roofs by ordinance.
North America43.62° N 116.20° W
Boise
United States
A wooded river, a bench of old shoreline above downtown, and houses warmed by springs.
North America40.02° N 105.27° W
Boulder
United States
Where the mountains meet the plains, with the 40th parallel running down Baseline Road.
North America45.68° N 111.04° W
Bozeman
United States
The Valley of the Flowers, with mountain ranges on every side.
North America46.87° N 113.99° W
Missoula
United States
The hub of five valleys, on the bed of an ice-age lake.
North America47.66° N 117.43° W
Spokane
United States
A river with falls in the middle of town, at the edge of the Channeled Scablands.
North America38.63° N 90.20° W
St. Louis
United States
Near where the Missouri meets the Mississippi, built from its own limestone.
North America35.15° N 90.05° W
Memphis
United States
High on the bluffs over the Mississippi, named for a city on the Nile.
North America35.05° N 85.31° W
Chattanooga
United States
A river city between the ridges, with four bridges downtown.
North America33.52° N 86.81° W
Birmingham
United States
A valley between long ridges, laid over the iron, coal and limestone that made steel.
North America30.70° N 88.04° W
Mobile
United States
Where the Mobile River meets the bay, with porches front and back.
North America42.89° N 78.88° W
Buffalo
United States
At the head of the Niagara, where the Erie Canal came to an end.
North America43.05° N 76.15° W
Syracuse
United States
The Salt City, on small hills that used to be villages of their own.
North America41.67° N 70.30° W
Cape Cod
United States
Sixty-five miles out into the Atlantic, with a warm sound and a cold ocean.
North America41.38° N 70.64° W
Martha's Vineyard
United States
Six towns on one island, and a possessive apostrophe it kept.
North America41.28° N 70.10° W
Nantucket
United States
An island since rising seas cut it off, five or six thousand years ago.
North America44.48° N 73.21° W
Burlington
United States
Six miles of Lake Champlain shore, rising three hundred feet from the water.
North America43.07° N 89.40° W
Madison
United States
A downtown on an isthmus between two lakes, with four lakes in all.
North America35.23° N 80.84° W
Charlotte
United States
Uptown on a rise between two creeks, where a trading path crossed a wagon road.
North America36.10° N 80.24° W
Winston-Salem
United States
Two towns made one in 1913, around a square laid out by the Moravians.
North America35.91° N 79.06° W
Chapel Hill
United States
A town grown along a hill where a small chapel stood in 1752.
North America36.85° N 75.98° W
Virginia Beach
United States
More than half of it water, and most of the rest barely above the tide.
North America32.78° N 79.93° W
Charleston
United States
On the point where the Ashley and Cooper rivers meet, at the edge of the tide.
North America32.08° N 81.09° W
Savannah
United States
Twenty-two squares on an old town plan, under live oaks, upriver from the sea.
North America27.95° N 82.46° W
Tampa
United States
Between two bays, with cigar-factory streets and palms at the edge of their range.
North America38.30° N 122.29° W
Napa
United States
A river town at the foot of a valley of vineyards, once spelled with two Ps.
North America36.56° N 121.92° W
Carmel
United States
A village in a forest by the sea, with no street lights and few house numbers.
North America31.76° N 106.48° W
El Paso
United States
The pass through the mountains, where three states and two countries meet.
North America41.14° N 104.82° W
Cheyenne
United States
A railway townsite on Crow Creek that grew so fast they called it the Magic City.
North America32.78° N 96.80° W
Dallas
United States
A crossing of the Trinity on white rock, grown out across the prairie.
North America39.96° N 83.00° W
Columbus
United States
Where the Scioto meets the Olentangy, on land the glaciers left flat.
North America41.50° N 81.69° W
Cleveland
United States
Bluffs along the lake, a river down the middle, and a side for everyone.
North America46.79° N 92.10° W
Duluth
United States
At the western tip of the Great Lakes, climbing a steep hill from the water.
North America64.84° N 147.72° W
Fairbanks
United States
On the Chena near the Tanana, just south of the Arctic Circle.
North America34.87° N 111.76° W
Sedona
United States
Pink sandstone that seems to glow at sunrise and sunset, in the high desert.
North America39.19° N 106.82° W
Aspen
United States
Named for its aspens, on the Roaring Fork at just under 8,000 feet.
North America41.49° N 71.31° W
Newport
United States
A third of it water, and streets on the Point named for trees instead of people.
North America42.06° N 70.18° W
Provincetown
United States
Water on every side but one, with Front Street and Back Street along the harbour.
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United States102
- Albany
- Albuquerque
- Anchorage
- Ann Arbor
- Asheville
- Aspen
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Baltimore
- Bar Harbor
- Big Sur
- Birmingham
- Boise
- Boston
- Boulder
- Bozeman
- Buffalo
- Burlington
- Cape Cod
- Carmel
- Chapel Hill
- Charleston
- Charlotte
- Chattanooga
- Cheyenne
- Chicago
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- Duluth
- El Paso
- Fairbanks
- Fort Worth
- Greensboro
- Hartford
- Hilo
- Honolulu
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Ithaca
- Jackson Hole
- Jacksonville
- Juneau
- Kansas City
- Key West
- Knoxville
- Lahaina
- Lake Tahoe
- Las Vegas
- Lexington
- Los Angeles
- Louisville
- Mackinac Island
- Madison
- Martha's Vineyard
- Memphis
- Miami
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis
- Missoula
- Mobile
- Nantucket
- Napa
- Nashville
- New Orleans
- New York
- Newport
- Oklahoma City
- Orlando
- Palm Springs
- Park City
- Philadelphia
- Phoenix
- Pittsburgh
- Portland
- Portland, Maine
- Providence
- Provincetown
- Raleigh
- Reno
- Richmond
- Rochester
- Sacramento
- Salt Lake City
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Fe
- Savannah
- Seattle
- Sedona
- Spokane
- St. Louis
- Syracuse
- Tampa
- Tucson
- Virginia Beach
- Washington DC
- Winston-Salem