SimCity is not about urban planning, for instance, but about a specifically neoliberal approach to urbanity in which automobiles, electricity, and industry are treated as synonymous with progress, allowing players to chose how they want traffic and power plants to operate but never allowing for alternatives to those systems.
The modern shopping mall was invented by Victor Gruen, a Viennese socialist who wanted to create urbanity in the new American suburbs of the 1950s.
It tells of his talents, knowledge, contacts, wit and urbanity, but it does not convince.
For example, depositing funeral wreaths, ashes from cremations or corpses at government petitioning offices could be treated as crimes.Chaobei New City's very name conveys the mindset of those who ordered it built: officials who hoped that by destroying the villages and building 56 blocks of flats in their place they could create a semblance of urbanity.
If his book is lacking in urbanity, that is because it is what should properly be called a tract.
Most contemporary critics thought Gruen had succeeded in bringing urbanity to the suburbs.
A giant box (pictured) that seems from a distance to depict a city skyline is actually made up, when you get close, of hundreds of small photographs of houses in Lahore, a teeming mosaic of urbanity that includes shops, traffic and dusty street corners.
Mr Obama's urbanity seems a more significant political influence than his race: George W Bush's "my way or the highway" attitude is archetypically Texan, just as Reagan's somewhat daffy optimism smacks of California.
Holmes, in his occasional poems and his "Breakfast-Table" series (1858 91), brought touches of urbanity and jocosity to polite literature.
This was a collation and revision of earlier texts and displays a remarkable sophistication and urbanity.
Built by the English and Scottish planters or by the landlords of the 18th century, they have a foreign touch of orderliness and urbanity.
