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Strictly speaking from a map perspective I find Detroit's location interesting because it's kind of tucked away in the peninsula and it's right off the Lake.
Phoenix. In the middle (well, edge of, technically) of the Sonoran Desert. Isolated by hundreds of miles of open desert in all directions (with some small towns here and there). Its majestic looking desert, too, IMO.
Because of its location, I have to wonder if Detroit will someday be revitalized. In fact, on another forum it was speculated that cities might be revitalized and/or rebuilt if at a prime or "Alpha" location.
Seattle - wedged between Puget Sound and Lake Washington on an isthmus.
Pittsburgh - at the confluence of three rivers.
San Francisco - need I explain?
Denver - on the Front Range with the Rockies looming in the background.
Juneau, AK...it is an interesting location because there is no way to get their without requiring a boat/ferry or a plane. A lot of cities in Alaska are tough to get to, but this is their capital. Getting to Juneau Alaska | Juneau Transportation | Juneau CVB
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Tucson, AZ. Like the poster above described Phoenix with the beautiful Sonoran Desert scenery kicked up a notch with taller mountains surrounding the valley and the magic of Saguaro National Park on both sides of the city.
Wildcard - St. John's, Newfoundland up in Canada. An old city loaded with character built on steep hills with sea cliffs at the eastern most edge of the North American continent.
Strictly speaking from a map perspective I find Detroit's location interesting because it's kind of tucked away in the peninsula and it's right off the Lake.
You have to remember that when Detroit, and most other cities, were founded, water transportation was the only consistent and reliable way of moving around. Cross country travel was so difficult, that in colonial Virginia, people traveled from one city to another by going all the way down the river to Chesapeake Bay, through the bay to another river's mouth, then up that river to their destination.
For the same reason, all of Louisiana's Mississippi River parishes below Baton Rouge have the River running through them. The cohesion of the parish depended on the river as the only means of moving about within the parish. Two towns across the river from each r had a natural affinity to each other for regional administration, without requiving days of slogging through the roadless forest for commerce..
So Detroit was established there completely irrespective of the land on the peninsula of Michigan, but only because it was located suitably for water-going trade and commerce.
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