“Vast sprawl of red roofs” “This side of town” “City overflowing its Roman walls”

““Red-roofed spread of Kingstown below” Well-to-do fortified/unfortified city

“Confusion (“stare at Pertinax across a confusion of small tables and dirty crockery”) Out here in the sticks

“Disorderly mess of dirty houses and crooked streets” Neglected corners of the city

“The multitude of twisting byways and human warrens that crowded the houses of the wealthy and the walls of the Great Palace itself.” “The temple is an oasis of light and splendor surrounded by a maze of streets”

A collection of rotting wooden huts Out on the edge of town

Jumble (jumble of fallen tree Uptown from

Hive of _ Precincts ( area marked out administratively in a city) | “the sacred precincts”)

Sprawl of (bones) The upper city

“Valley of stilt houses” Bowels

Town was little more than a huddle of angular shapes Depths

Roofline

“Their roofs a mismatched maze of mossy thatch, cracked tile, rain-slick slate, broken gutters, spurting water to spater on the flagstones below.” Tanners’ quarter (“foul smelling”; where unsavory ppl live like executioner)

Jumble of civilian buildings Warren (crowded tenement or district)

“Ankhana lay spread below them like a carpet of jewels, from diamond chips of lamps to blazing ruby bonfires’ Fashionable area

The city – a mountain of fine arches and reaching white spires Affluent

“Roystock was a reeking spew of wooden shops, piled one on the other and crammed onto a rotting island at the mouth of the Divine River.” Slums

“the city’s mass of chimney pots rise up like great pottery wine goblets laid along the table of the skyline, dinner settings for the gods.” The monument completely dominates the city, yet at the same time seems alien to it and set apart, an intrusion from a divine realm