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In fictional settings authors often decide to make great cites for their work. In "classic" sci-fi the city served as a common trope to be used to represent whatever society that existed. They, when animated, drawn or otherwise shown a Design Student's Orgasm usually occurs. This comes in two flavors and is often the capital of The Federation, The Alliance, The Empire, or The Republic. Is usually a City of Adventure.
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- The titular Metropolis. It borrows from H. G. Wells The Time Machine and has a shiny Art Deco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.
- Minas Tirith.
- Asgard.
- And the major cities of World of Warcraft: Silver Moon, Undercity, the Exodar, Dalaran and Shattrah.
- Warhammer40000 has quite a lot. Eldar cities and the Dark Eldar capital of Commorgah are both very impressive (the former are Crystal Spires and Togas style cites housed inside Craftworlds, spacecrafts the size of small moons, the latter is a Dark Towers and Spikes style city located inside the Webway). Humans have numerous heavily populated worlds with impressive looking cities, but the grand price goes to Holy Terra, seat of the Imperium. The Imperial Palace alone covers most of what used to be Eurasia.
- The titular City of Ember.
- New Mombasa from Halo 3.
- The Human City from The Matrix. It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.
- The city in Blade Runner is certainly Dark and Gritty, as depicted in fanart here
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- Dinotopia's Waterfall City.
- Drowtales: Chel'el'sussoloth, literally means "City of light in the darkness". For Lonely Rich Kid Ariel, it's a fantasy world beyond her wildest dreams, to Genre Savvy Cloudcuckoolander Lirel, it's a Wretched Hive that also has Crystal Spires and Togas... perfect for having A Hell of a Time.
- In Futurama, New New York◊ actually finds itself suffering from a garbage shortage, while they dump their radioactive sewage directly into Old New York◊ and the sewers below, the later of which now look like this◊ because of a civilisation of mutants (who are required to live their by law).
- In James and the Giant Peach, James tends to think of New York City this way.
- In RoboCop, OCP portrays Delta City as Shiny and Awesome, but, like every other product OCP makes...
- Star Trek's Stratos City: Crystal Spires and Togas for everyone! (Except Troglodytes.)
- Star Wars:
- Stargate: The Ancients, Great City Ships (notably Atlantis).
- Real Life, more or less:
- "Ubiquitos". Also known as 'The City' from Mirror's Edge. See also Ascetic Aesthetic and Scenery Porn.
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