For comic creators, game designers, authors, anyone who builds worlds, I present to you an overview of city design. I have a BA in anthropology (archaeology), and much of this information is a summary of some of what I learned in my degree.

I wrote this back in 2018 and I provide it here basically AS-IS. I’ve added a few notes with updates here and there, but I have not extensively updated this guide. That said, it should still be very useful.