His description of cities, people, customs, cuisines, and maritime commerce along China's Grand Canal provides insight into the daily life of China and how it differed between northern and southern China during the 15th century.
They are also characterized by excellent descriptions of city and country and by a mixture of supernatural and natural elements.
"You can see this documentation and these descriptions of city life compared to the outside from people who left and returned," Coutinho says.
On starting the game, the icon of an Aragonian city is displayed, along with a cue for a word in the manual's description of that city; a separate poster identifies the cities with their icons.
Xenephon passed by Nimrud (which he called Larissa) in 401 BC along with 10,000 Greek soldiers and described the city as Despite Xenephon's description of the city as being abandoned, archaeological evidence seems to show that there was some Achaemenid-period occupation.
His literary descriptions of cities, paintings, or scenes of nature are valuable sources for the history of art.
And it was there in Jane Jacobs's descriptions of cities as organisms, capable of adaptive change from the street level on up.
Most mahākāvyas display such set pieces as descriptions of cities, oceans, mountains, the seasons, the rising of the sun and moon, games, festivals, weddings, embassies, councils, war, and triumph.
One local guidebook provided a no-frills description of the city: "Liepaja is the second most important city in Latvia from the cultural point of view".
"While we have long hoped the mayor and City Council would agree on a viable recovery plan, given the mayor's description of the city's financial condition and the prospect the city may run out of cash in mere months, it has become clear that a preliminary financial review is not only warranted but necessary," said Andy Dillon, the state treasurer.
