1 We experience it as the result of a shared sense of connection and past. Think about Rotterdam as ‘the’ city of contemporary urban development and architecture, Amsterdam as ‘the’ city of the Golden Age and Eindhoven ‘is’ Philips. Looking at Dutch cities, we see that many of these stories are being used more and more as a marketing tool for creating one identity to develop an area. This article explains how and more importantly, why.

The Time Machine is a tool to travel through time and collect these stories as an inspiration and direction for future place or area development. Our urban environment could be seen as the illustration of a book: it helps to explain all the stories and experiences of the past, shaped by its different users through time. September 1989.OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT COULD BE SEEN AS THE ILLUSTRATION OF A BOOK February 1989.Ī Pirate took our Time Machine. The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure Part 3. The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure Part 2. The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure Part 1. Links are to the copies available at Google Books. In the following table, 'DK' indicates that the story's author is listed as Donald Keith, while 'KM' means attribution to Keith Monroe.

Kai Beezee Tentroy, recruited from a city called Troy in 4000 A.D.

Ellsworth 'Brains' Baynes, brilliant bookworm who operates the Machine.

Bob Tucker, patrol leader (often the story narrator).

All the Time Machine stories are available from Google Books in its collection of Boys' Life issues. Some of the stories were collected in two books: Mutiny in the Time Machine and Time Machine to the Rescue, with Donald Keith listed as the author. The first story in the series was 'The Day We Explored the Future', appearing in the December 1959 Boys' Life on page 18. In later years, some stories were credited just to the son, Keith Monroe. The author was given as Donald Keith for most of the stories, a pseudonym for the father-and-son team of Donald and Keith Monroe. The stories used the time machine as a framework for history lessons, but also explored the consequences of having a time machine (as well as the various technologies the boys who discovered it obtain from the future).

The Polaris Patrol visited the future and the past, sometimes recruiting new Scouts. The Time Machine series of science fiction stories for young adults, published between 19 in Boys' Life magazine, featured a group of American Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. Illustration by Charles Hawes for The Day We Explored the Future

The time machine and other stories