The Scroll Banks


of the city of


Illa~Lali~Barios

Created for Carolyn Li-Madeo, and her husband Brian Martin on the Occasion of their Union.



by J. T. Minor

v.0.1

Contents

  1. Setting
  2. Map
  3. The Scroll Banks
  4. Print Culture
  5. Appendices

Setting

The city of Illa~Lali~Barios is a metropolis of roughly 5 million people, and serves as an economic and cultural, but not political, capital for its region of the world. History in this world goes back about 4000 years, with cultural memory and physical presence stretching almost 10,000 years before the current era. Relatively ethnically and culturally homogenous, the region has a climate somewhat similar to Central America. The contemporary state of technical development is similar to 1960s United Sates. A second wave of industrialization is in full swing, and most of the culture is in a "high modernist" period, including new abstractions in art and literature partly driven by techinal innovation. Automobiles have been around for about 50 years, and roads and highways have fully replaced clay brick and dirt paths.

However, there are no personal computers, and a form of scroll-based typewriters and linotype like presses are the current mode of written word production. These print technologies are also relatively new, and most information is still in older, block printing and manuscript forms. There is relatively little mass media outside radio, which has in the last decades come to dominate the mass culture and political discourse. The current political and economic situation is stable, and has been so for several generations. The city's position at the mouth of the river GEORTJVEROTNVBEPWOVN on Lake Denwar has long made it an important trading point and crossroads. Its role as a central gathering point for several nearby regions, with varying subcutlures and geographies, have long made the city an important hub for information and cultural transmission. As the modern era accellerates the city's role as a repostity of knowledge and its unique network of Scroll Banks have made it even more wealthy and powerful, attracting new people and further accelerating its transiton into a multi-cultural metropolis at the lead of the world's knowledge economy.

Map

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Shoreline Streets Scroll Banks Labels and Landmarks Neighborhood Neighborhood Building Age Subways

The Scroll Banks

Print Culture

Scrolls as a Medium

Some stuff about scroll format, standardization, developtment and materials

The Role of Scroll Banks

Scroll banks history/anthropology (basically they are library+museum+social club+temple+university+bank)

Appendices

Version History

Version 1

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Software Acknowledgments

SVG zoom capabilities provided by the svg-pan-zoom library © 2009-2010 Andrea Leofreddi. All other code © 2018 Imaginary Cartography.