Civic City

Civic City is a low density neighbor of Urban from across the Childress River. It is located in the pacific northwest.

History
Civic City started as a sprawling collection of farmsteads. Communal grange halls served as social centers, a trend that was given a great boost when the railroad was built through the area connecting to the Kuhn Postal Office, which became the Kuhn Post Office and Rail Depot. Finally, in 1880 the communities incorporated as a city. Over time, more and more central farms were bought up by the city itself and replaced with low density infrastructure. The city council was formed of the heads of the most powerful farming families. These families were loathe to turn over personal autonomy to an executive, hence the mayor position is mostly a figurehead.

Current Civic City
Today Civic City is a low density, sprawling city of approximately 1 million citizens. The mayor of Civic City has relatively little power, while the city council is more powerful than in the typical city. The outskirts of the city, even in modern times, has a heavy share of agriculture, although these farms are more often run by conglomerates than families today. Civic City maintains a friendly rivalry with their neighbor across the river, Urban.

Institutions
Civic University is a first rate public university located in south eastern Civic City. Their mas-cot is the Citizen, and school colors are white and deep purple (usually with copper colored lettering). CU started as an agricultural school, but after the great depression it focused strongly on diversifying and now offers a wide array of majors, including a widely respected Xenology department.

The Daily Citizen is a major general interest newspaper of record. It competes with the Urban Pioneer Journal but not extensively as the latter is strongly focused on business news and foreign affairs.