The city-specific landmarks used when giving directions. Urban landmarks differ from suburban and country landmarks such as large rocks, churches, farms and wishing wells.
Urban landmarks are frequently alive and a bit trickier to follow than those in the country as they
may move on occasion. Typically, urban landmarks are taken from the underbelly of
society and city living and may include junkies, hookers and very drunk
college students.
After dropping her off at her apartment, she said it would be easy to find our way back to the highway if we looked for the ready-to-puke
guy on the stoop, the angry, yelling
yuppie and the
junkie passed out at the intersection along with other urban landmarks we noticed along the way.