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* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia Dinotopia]]'''s [[http://dinotopia.wikia.com/wiki/Waterfall_City Waterfall City]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* ''{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=5 Chel'el'sussoloth]], [[MeaningfulName liteally means]] "City of light in the darkness". YourMileageMayVary; for LonelyRichKid Ariel, it's a fantasy world beyond her wildest dreams, to GenreSavvy {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lirel, it's a WretchedHive that also has CrystalSpiresAndTogas... perfect for having AHellOfATime.

* The Human City from TheMatrix, It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.

* ''Stargate'' The Ancients, Great City Ships notably Atlantis.

* Gotham City from {{Batman}}, epically [[NoMansLand post-earthquake]] when the city Looks like a mash up of the 1930s, Gothic London and a Modern city.
* Ankh-Morpork from Literature/{{Discworld}}, though it most of its dark has turned into grime and might occasionally become part of something served in a bun.

* Dentech City from RockManEXE The fact that EverythingIsOnline compounds this. And its virtual counterpart Navi City which '''is''' online.

* "Ubiquitos" Also known as 'The City' from Mirror's Edge. See also {{Ascetic Aesthetic}} and {{Scenery Porn}}.

* Themyscra of WonderWoman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Themyscira-floating.jpg just take a look]]

* [[LordOfTheRings Minas Tirith]]
* [[TheMightyThor Asgard]]

* The titular CityOfEmber

* The city in ''Film/BladeRunner'' is certainly '''Dark and Gritty''', as depicted in fanart [[http://site.jacobcharlesdietz.com/the-work/gallery-3/2019-post-alley here]]

* In ''RoboCop'', OCP ''portrays'' Delta City as '''Shiny and Awesome''', but, like every other product OCP makes....

* The titular MegaTokyo
* New Domino City from Yugioh5Ds

* Metropolis from {{Superman}}

* Vampire New York as seen in DayBreakers. While it's the exact opposite of "shiny" The sheer infrastructure of adapting the biggest city in the world to Vampires gets it put in this category. Besides, Dark ''is'' shiny [[HumansThroughAlienEyes for vampires.]]

* Dentech City from RockManEXE The fact that EverythingIsOnline compounds this.
** And its virtual counterpart Navi City which '''is''' online.

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 TheFederation, TheAlliance, TheEmpire, or TheRepublic. Is usually a CityOfAdventure.

* In ''{{Futurama}}'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Futurama_-_The_Future.jpg New New York]] actually finds itself suffering from a garbage ''shortage'', while they dump their radioactive sewage directly into [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:OldNY.jpg Old New York]] and the sewers below, the later of which now look like [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mutantvillage.jpg this]] because of a civilisation of mutants (who [[FantasticRacism are required to live their by law]]).

* The city in ''BladeRunner'' is certainly '''Dark and Gritty''', as depicted in fanart [[http://site.jacobcharlesdietz.com/the-work/gallery-3/2019-post-alley here]]

* Ankh-Morpork from {{Discworld}}, though it most of its dark has turned into grime and might occasionally become part of something served in a bun.

* The titular {{Metropolis}}. It borrows from HGWells ''TheTimeMachine'' and has a shiny Art Deco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.

* As seen above, [[StarWars Coruscant]] is a planet. It's so large they needed an entire [[AllThereInTheManuel subsidiary guide just to explain how it worked.]]

* The Citadel from MassEffect. It's a [[RuleOfCool a giant space station.]] Just [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Citadel check out its page]]. It. Is. Awesome. [[spoiler: Of course it was made by crazy Robo-Cthulu death farmers. But that's beside the point.]]

* [[LordOfTheRings Minas Tirith]]

* The titular {{Metropolis}}. It borrows from HGWells ''TheTimeMachine'' and has a shiny TheFutureIsArtDeco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.

* The titular {{Metropolis}}

* In ''{{Futurama}}'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Futurama_-_The_Future.jpg New New York]] actually finds itself suffering from a garbage ''shortage'', while they dump their radioactive sewage directly into [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:OldNY.jpg Old New York]] below, which now looks like [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mutantvillage.jpg this]].

[[quoteright:250:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Coruscant.JPG]][[caption-width-right:250:This is Coruscant. It is a city. It is also a planet. You just got pwned.]]

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!Shiny and Awesome

! Dark and Gritty

[[quoteright:250:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Coruscant.JPG]][[caption-width:250:This is Coruscant. It is a city. It is also a planet. You just got pwned.]]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Coruscant.JPG [[caption-width:250:This is Coruscant. It is a city. It is also a planet. You just got pwned]]

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 DesignStudentsOrgasm usually occurs . This comes in two flavors and is often the capital of TheFederation TheAlliance TheEmpire or TheRepublic.

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Is usually a CityOfAdventure.

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Not to mention

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{{Warhammer40000}} has quite a lot. Eldar cities and the Dark Eldar capital of Commorgah are both very impressive (the former are CrystalSpiresAndTogas style cites housed inside Craftworlds, spacecrafts the size of small moons, the latter is a [[{{EvilToweOfOminousness}} 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.

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The Human City from TheMatrix, It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.

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YKTTW bump.

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The Coruscant example is SingleBiomePlanet.

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I don't think MegaTokyo is an example. O_o Perhaps you had {{Metropolis}} in mind, but that's already listed...

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Not sure I understand this well enough - would any of these count?