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The City

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The City	label	The City
The City	page	TheCity
The City	comment	The City: a bustling, dense urban area full of people, tall buildings, businesses, government offices and limited parking (except for our heroes). The extremes of wealth and poverty are wider here than in a Small Town. With the city's impoverished area on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, there's more criminals and you're more likely to be the victim of a crime. As a result, this is where most Crime and Punishment Series and Police Procedural shows are set. When a Sitcom is set here, it tends to feature a younger, hipper crowd than the usual Dom Com. People are also more cynical in The City, and the Deadpan Snarker abounds. There is also public transportation, which is a good place to get Post-Robbery Trauma. Combine with a bit of dystopian political corruption and a Rogues Gallery of unrepentant lawbreakers, and it's the perfect place for the Superhero to set up shop. In the land of television, The City is also full of big luxury apartments which even a twentysomething who's just starting out their careers can afford. A few cities have their own special quirks (especially CSI's Las Vegas). For the most part, The City will feature sprawling central business districts, vibrant ethnic neighborhoods, industrial zones, decaying, crime-ridden ghettos and Abandoned Areas. Note that the distinction between The City and Suburbia is not always clear-cut; many shows set in The City might deal more with the residential neighborhoods, making it feel like Suburbia with rowhouses (Full House, The Cosby Show, Family Matters). And sometimes the residential neighborhoods, while 100% within the city limits, will have detached single-family homes that aren't even rowhouses and look even more indistinguishable from the suburbs. The go-to city for this is Los Angeles due to its sprawling nature. At the other end of the spectrum, a show set officially in Suburbia may show an assortment of local businesses, events, and institutions that you would typically only find in a city (The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer). However, these towns tend to be fictional; Springfield in particular tends to go from largish city to suburb depending on the needs of the episode. The peculiar interplay of aspects of Suburbia and The City in the real-world city of Baltimore, Maryland (rural sensibilities + high population density = wacky crime) has made it a popular choice in recent years for Crime and Punishment Series (Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire). While not primarily a cop show, police work typically figures into the B-plots of Joan of Arcadia, which is set in a fictionalized version of the real-life Baltimore suburb of Arcadia. Of course, it doesn't hurt that David Simon is himself a Baltimore native who wrote a number of non-fiction works that many of those shows are directly based on.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The City	processingCategory2	Settings
Haré+Guu / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Samurai Pizza Cats / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Transformers: Robots in Disguise / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Thomas Valiant (Comic Book) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The City (Comic Strip)	seeAlso	The City
Kuroinu and the Transformers: War for Selenus (Fanfic) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Dornian Heresy (Fanfic) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Rod Squad (Fanfic) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Black Scorpion / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Manhattan / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Mystery Men / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Sunrise / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Naked City / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Asterisk War / int_e25ff7	type	The City
A Confederacy of Dunces / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Conciencia y Voluntad / int_e25ff7	type	The City
El Conquistador / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Kalpa Imperial / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Kings of the Wyld / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Lazarillo De Tormes / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Stick Cat / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Asterisk War / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Ulysses / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Without Seeing The Dawn / int_e25ff7	type	The City
ILoveThisTown	processingCategory1	The City
TheDireFlamingohawkrobin	seeAlso	The City
Haré+Guu (Manga) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Tokyo Babylon (Manga) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Homicide: Life on the Street / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The City	seeAlso	The City
The Sunny Side Up Show / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Tribe / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Dresden Files (Tabletop Game) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Hallow's End (Video Game) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (Video Game) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Reah: Face the Unknown (Video Game) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Them's Fightin' Herds (Video Game) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Cthulhu Mythos RPG: The Sleeping Girl of the Miasma Sea (Video Game) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Superhuman (Visual Novel) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Pancake's Show (Web Animation) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Candela Obscura (Web Video) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Woo Hoo (Webcomic)	seeAlso	The City
Puppy Dog Pals / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Country Cousin / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Shepherd 1969 / int_e25ff7	type	The City
The Tick / int_e25ff7	type	The City
12 oz. Mouse / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Wildguard (Comic Book) / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Max Headroom / int_e25ff7	type	The City
Newheimburg (Webcomic) / int_e25ff7	type	The City

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