City Construction Compendium

[sciencemile]

I'm going to post a list of books that I have found to be quite beneficial to the construction of "The Ultimate City", each giving more and more tips to make a city/town/metropolis/etc more alive and full of detail.

In my opinion however, even these are not sufficient to quench my obsession over knowing more about a single neighborhood than I do about the actual neighborhood I live in, and I hope anyone who has a Link, their own City Construction advice, or yet another book that I may have left out will feel free to contribute with their own post.

(Suggestions will be credited to 1st submitter)

Books

- A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe
- Dungeon Master's Guide
- Dungeon Master for Dummies
- Cityscape (iceddragons)
- Races of (Stone, Destiny, etc) (Kizara)
- Epic Level Handbook (Kizara)
- Stronghold Builder's Guide (Kizara)


Links

Fief: Medieval Demographics
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm - (Ellisande)

[Hyozo]

Cityscape seems like it would belong on your list of books.

[Kizara]

The Epic Level Handbook had some real interesting details on the planar meteropolises.

Also, the various Races of X books detail the way those races live, and give you an idea to what their 'cities' are like.

Finally, the Stronghold Builder's Guidebook (3.0) doesn't have city details per-se, but it does give you the tools to construct a specific building in or near a city. It gives you an idea of how feasible that super-magic castle or the floating wizard's tower actually are, for example.

[sciencemile]

Thank you iceddragon, forgot that one, which is sad, seemings how I own it :(

[Ellisande]

Though not exclusively city-oriented, S. John Ross' Medieval Demographics article deserves a link. It's one of my favourite demographic references.