Suggestion: Mega City

Well, we have Coruscant on Skyscraper City already (and is more of a City Planet anyway, so let's avoid overlap). Here's some shots of Mega City One from Judge Dredd: 1◊ 2◊, 3. 4◊. Map. I like 4 myself for showing just how overcrowded it is and not just skyscrapers.

edited 29th Jul '15 3:31:10 AM by Morgenthaler

Opened.

I also like 1.4, the people give it a sense of scale.

Another for 1.4.

I'll go for 1.4 as well, for the same reason. The people give a good sense of scale.

1.4 has my vote.

As long as 1.4 looks good at wiki size, it has my vote.

Tried a few different sizes for 1.4. Here's a size reduction to 300x420 that seems like a decent compromise.

As an alternative, perhaps something from Shadowrun? [1]◊[2]◊[3][4]

edited 8th Aug '15 6:52:25 PM by peasant

The first one seems to have a copyright bug on it and the others don't really seem to say MEGA city to me, just a city.

Catalyst Game Labs is the publisher for the Shadowrun Tabletop game; and the image is official art by them that is freely available to download from their website.

9.3 is pretty cool, but 8, I think, is a little better.

Maybe I'm missing the forest for the trees here, but 8 seems a bit squished to me.

Problem is, it'd likely be ludicrously tall at 350px...

8 gives me a distracting Used Future vibe.

^ I'm not sure how that affects anything. As the trope is written, a Mega City could look either super-neat and organized or run-down and decayed. 8 is somewhere in between, but cleanliness has nothing to do with the trope; it's about the insane size of the city.

edited 9th Aug '15 6:44:42 AM by Morgenthaler

I'm not that fond of 8, but it works.

Not really from any particular piece of work but I think this fits:

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That has the same issue as 9. It looks futuristic, but that's not the focus of the trope. It should be a city that looks like it has a population running into the hundreds of millions. All but possibly 1.3 from the OP demonstrate that more clearly.

Map of Mega City one covering most of the eastern coast of the USA◊

A hive world's three hive cities seen from orbit. So big it's visible from space, but yet doesn't cover an entire planet so distinct from◊ City Planet

edited 13th Aug '15 4:33:48 AM by CobraPrime

I think we have some decent options at this point. Crowner?

Blank crowner's hooked; no time to fill it right now.

Added those.

Thanks.

Friday votes bump; two in the green.

Monday votes bump; two in the green, one with a slight lead.