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...first piece of good advice you will get from "veterans" is that no one needs a guidebook--it's much more fun to find your own little restaurants, to discover your own delightful little hostels, to drift where the wind blows you. But such spontaneity leaves many a bit insecure, and the prospect of eating-what-the-people-eat may reinforce the queasiness. So give in. Buy a guidebook...
...Iron Curtain, places Frommer or your Eurail Pass could never take you. The researchers are students, and, like Frommer, they make their share of mistakes. But they try harder to orient the American in a strange city, to give him alternatives to the tourist traps, to offer a guidebook that won't be dead weight in Europe...
When most people visit a city, they consult the regulation guidebook, dutifully trudge around to examine the local museum, the famous landmarks, and the historic sites-and then think they know all about the place. Nothing could be farther from the truth, says Richard Saul Wurman, 37, a Philadelphia architect. Only when Americans really understand the thrust and logic, or illogic, of their cities can they start to improve the urban mess around them...
...highway on earth," says Wurman. "We talk in numbers we can't comprehend and about sizes we can't visualize." All of which has led the plump, bearded architect to try to fill the need himself. He and Fellow Architect John Gallery have just written a guidebook to his own home town...
...been a dominant American theme. Today, however, it often suggests not pioneering, the expansive drive, but a quest for refuge -from crime, pollution, drugs. Thousands of Americans have emigrated to places like Canada, England, Spain and Australia. They might have looked closer to home, according to Safe Places, a guidebook assembled by a New York book editor named David Franke and his wife Holly...