Urban (city)

Urban is a high density city across the Childress River from Civic City. It is located in the western US.

History
Fort Urban was established in 1799 as a bastion of US forces against enemy native american and mexican forces. The protection of the fort encouraged settlement of migrants in the immediate vicinity. Over time the city of Urban sprung up around the Fort.

Current Urban
Today Urban is a high density tech center with a population of 2.6 million. Due to circumstances, including federal ownership of the surrounding lands the city has developed vertically and features very high density living. The original Fort Urban was destroyed in the 30s but was restored in the Historic Park District (HPD, usually pronounced "hep'd" by natives).

Urban shares a symbiotic relationship with neighboring Civic City. This relationship is not without tension at times but by and large the two towns cooperate well. Urban provides high density industrial infrastructure, including modern river port facilities, as well as superior arts and cultural resources. Civic City provides sprawling low density living, contains robust train track connections, and has extensive outlying farms. The cities are connected by four bridges but a tunnel under the river now provides for the vast majority of land traffic between the two.

Institutions
Pike, Tenner, and Daub are a high end jewelers that provide both direct customer sales as well as gemstone cutting and polishing services. Sales are done through a number of store fronts throughout the city while the cutting is done in their third floor office in the Woodhouse Building in downtown Urban.

The Urban Pioneer Journal is the main newspaper of record for Urban and competes extensively with the Daily Citizen. The UPJ has a strong business focus similar to the Wall Street Journal.