As it turned out, Real Directions, which is available for 52 cities in the United States, required the inclusion of many more landmarks than anticipated.
When Coronado passed through the area in the 16th century, he described an acute sense of European disorientation as his men struggled to plot a course across a place "with no more landmarks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea".
Over time, the truck became more landmark than billboard, transcending commerce to became part of the cityscape.
Similarly, a clothesline or a market is a more important landmark than either David's Citadel or the Al Aqsa Mosque.
For New Yorkers, for whom the real National Debt Clock, the one Seymour Durst hung up in Midtown in 1989, is more a landmark than an ideological touchstone — and some might say that's a problem with New Yorkers — the clock in the convention hall might count as a homey touch.
Mr. Chatham said that zoning, more than landmark designation, had affected the look of Crosby Street, at least the vacant lots: "Both sides of Crosby are in a manufacturing zone, which prohibits new residential construction, and the plots are too small for commercial construction," except for the hotels, like Mr. Balasz's.
He travelled with the duke to France, Italy and Constantinople, seeing more art, architecture and cultural landmarks than many aristocrats.
Are we intentionally spreading the philosophy that it is somehow more honorable to pursue traditional landmarks than individual ambitions?
As fizzing with hormonal curiosity as 45 Years is wearied of desire, Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl (eOne, 18) is fast, funny and more of a landmark than you might guess: a brave, vivid articulation of adolescent female sexuality that imposes no teacherly moral judgment on its protagonist's most reckless erotic urges, even finding a kind of empowerment in error.
However, it can be argued that this is the results of landmarks attracting more attention than non-landmarks.
"We will make Bloomington much more proud, more of a world landmark than it is".
