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Edge City is where all the action is: a crowded city larger than Los Angeles or New York City. No one has ever taken a census, but estimates of the area's population range from half a million to 5.5 million people.

The architecture of Edge City is an amalgam of yesterdays and tomorrows. Newly-erected towers of glass stand side-by-side with granite Gothic citadels. Most large buildings are built of modern steel and glass or in the venerable old Gothic style, with occasional experiments by architects like Bruce Goff, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Morris Lapidus, or Eero Saarinen. The bleak Gothic ramparts were intended to be a bulwark against iniquity, but most common critics will tell you that the constructions have effectively barricaded vice and evil within the city. The Edge City Rapid Transit System (ECRTS) monorail spirals through the city on 134 miles of elevated track.

In the business and wealthy districts, the streets are broad, clean, and filled with the good looking and powerful. Elsewhere the streets are narrow, twisted, filthy, and thronged with those who don't fit in well anywhere else in the world. Graffiti, often disturbing and unusually enigmatic, adorns most surfaces.

The city has several hot spots that focus arcane energies, energize psychic powers, and attract the supernatural. Other problems in the city include organ thieves, vigilantes, crazed religious cults, organized crime, drug wars, government corruption, secret societies, a media that is out to maintain the public ignorance (by force if necessary), and wealthy patrons who can turn against you at a moments notice.

The styles of the people and technology are the same as the architecture of the city – old and new combined.