The City Explained

The City may refer to:

Places

• A city centre in general

United States

• New York City, New York
  • Manhattan, one of the five boroughs of New York City
• the City of Chicago, Illinois, particularly as distinct from the various suburban municipalities and communities surrounding it, making-up the rest of the "Chicagoland" metropolitan region and outlying hinterlands
• San Francisco, California
• The City Shopping Center, a former name of The Outlets at Orange in Orange, California
• The City, a brand used from 2008 to 2009 at several prototype locations of former American consumer electronics retailer Circuit City

United Kingdom

• "The City", a term for the City of London, the historic core of London; also used to refer to the British financial services sector
• The City, Buckinghamshire, a village and civil parish

Fictional cities

• The City (The Tick), the fictional setting of The Tick comic books and TV series
• The City (Transmetropolitan), a fictional megacity in the Vertigo comic Transmetropolitan
• "The City", the setting of the Thief video game series

Books and websites

• The City (website), a New York City based non-profit, digital news site founded in 2018
• The City (Park and Burgess book), a 1925 book by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess
• The City (Pidmohylny novel), a 1928 novel by Valerian Pidmohylny
• "The City" (poem), an 1894 poem by Constantine P. Cavafy
• "The City" (short story), a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury
• The City (Weber book), a 1921 book by Max Weber
• The City (wordless novel), a 1925 wordless novel by Frans Masereel
• The City, a 1909 play by Clyde Fitch
• The City, a 1990–2014 comic strip by Derf Backderf
• The City (Koontz novel), a 2014 novel by Dean Koontz
• The City, a 1993 graphic novel by James Herbert
• The City (magazine), an American magazine of evangelical Christianity
• The City, a 1965 play by Loula Anagnostaki

Film, television

Film

• The City (1916 film), a 1916 film
• The City (1926 film), a lost 1926 silent film
• The City (1939 film), an American documentary by Steiner and Van Dyke
• The City (1977 film), a pilot for an unproduced American crime drama TV series
• The City (1982 film), a Taiwanese film written by Wu Nien-jen
• The City (1994 film), a Malayalam action film
• The City (1998 film), an American neo-realist film by David Riker

Television

• The City (1995 TV series), an American soap opera, 1995 - 1997
• The City (1999 TV series), a Canadian prime time soap opera
• The City (2008 TV series), an American reality television series, 2008 - 2010

Music

• The City (band), a 1980s alternative rock band
• The City (group), a music trio composed of Carole King, Danny Kortchmar, and Charles Larkey
• The City (XM), an Urban Top 40 radio channel
• "The City", the setting of Greenday's 2004 concept album American Idiot

Albums

• The City (Vangelis album), 1990
• The City (FemBots album), 2005
• The City (EP), a 2012 EP by Madeon, or its title song

Songs

• "The City" (song), a 2012 song by The 1975
• "The City", a 1999 song by The Dismemberment Plan from Emergency & I
• "The City", a 2011 song by The Chariot from Long Live
• "The City", a 2011 song by Ed Sheeran from +
• "The City", a 2011 song by Game from The R.E.D. Album
• "The City", a 2011 song by The Haunted from Unseen
• "The City", a 2011 song by Patrick Wolf from Lupercalia

Visual arts

• The City (Léger), a 1919 painting

See also

• • City, a large permanent human settlement
• City (disambiguation)