Gotham City Appreciation 2020

[Zaresh]

I'm not complaining, because that art is seriously good looking; but realistically, I think that city is too big for its time (late 1800, I guess?). Or too tall. Or both. But the art is very pretty. Air pollution, on the other hand, is probably very much like it would have been.

[Restingvoice]

I'm not complaining, because that art is seriously good looking; but realistically, I think that city is too big for its time (late 1800, I guess?). Or too tall. Or both. But the art is very pretty. Air pollution, on the other hand, is probably very much like it would have been.

The 1880s, yes. I think the in-story justification was the Four Founding Fathers were really pushing for urban development to be the best city in the world, a rival to Metropolis that's also ahead of its time, but I forget where I get that info or if it's even real.

Gotham landscape in Arkham Knight

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[Gotham citizen]

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Gotham Town in the 1800s from All-Star Western #1
The era of Jonah Hex, Amadeus Arkham, and Bruce's great-great-grandparents Alan Wayne and Catherine Van Derm

It seems the London of the late 1800.

[Restingvoice]

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Gotham in BTAS. Unlike the comics, it's located in the state of New York and later Gotham State

[Zaresh]

The 1880s, yes. I think the in-story justification was the Four Founding Fathers were really pushing for urban development to be the best city in the world, a rival to Metropolis that's also ahead of its time, but I forget where I get that info or if it's even real.

Gotham landscape in Arkham Knight

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Mmm... I guess, if you push the development of reinforced concrete to the early 1800s, you could find skycrapers of that many floors, because it has become a widespread construction material by the end of that century. With that, and the Founding Fathers hand in projecting and building the city, I can see Gotham looking like that, or like NY in the 1910 in this link: https://books.google.es/books?id=iU4...page&q&f=false

[Restingvoice]

Mmm... I guess, if you push the development of reinforced concrete to the early 1800s, you could find skycrapers of that many floors, because it has become a widespread construction material by the end of that century. With that, and the Founding Fathers hand in projecting and building the city, I can see Gotham looking like that, or like NY in the 1910 in this link: https://books.google.es/books?id=iU4...page&q&f=false

I don't know anything about the real world architecture development, but in Gotham history, they thought it's impossible to build skyscrapers too until Alan Wayne found a young architect that he put in charge on building his bridge in 1881

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Gates of Gotham #1
The previous page mentioned they want to push Gotham past metropolis, but I don't know if it refers to Metropolis or Gotham already being a huge city.

Looking at that cityscape in the second to last panel, this is definitely set before Hex arrived in Gotham in All-Star Western #1

[Restingvoice]

There's a story about the guy Joker and other villains hire to make their hideout. Is it in the comics or BTAS?

[batnbreakfast]

There's a story about the guy Joker and other villains hire to make their hideout. Is it in the comics or BTAS?

You probably think of Paul Dini s TEC/Streets of Gotham. The broker helping Zsasz and Joker buy property.