sky city
Aerial urban fantasy
Sky city evokes a city built in the clouds or at extreme altitude—whether literal settlements perched on mountaintops or cliffs, or fantastical floating metropolises in science fiction and video games.
The term often carries utopian or mythical connotations, suggesting a place elevated above ordinary concerns: The ancient ruins felt like a sky city, suspended between earth and heaven.
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- floating islandTerrain buoyed on water
- aerialElevated, or signal-catcher
- cloudsAirborne water masses
- towersTall vertical structures
utopia · metropolis · high rise · heights · spires · airborne · air ship · dreamscape · elevated · rooftops · bird's eye view · horizon · futuristic · suspended · celestial · skyscrapers · aerie · lofty
- Sci-Fi Settingsspace station, spaceship, starship, alien planet, moon base
- Fantasy PlacesMordor, Oz, Avalon, Gondor, Rivendell
- future worldsdystopia, utopia, megacity, Mars colony, cyberpunk
- megastructuresDyson sphere, space habitat, space elevator, arcologies, arcology
- future habitatsarcology, biodome, space station, lunar colony, Mars colony
sky cityunderground city
Urban area below ground
sunken city · buried city · underworld · underwater city · underground
sky cityunderworld
Realm of the departed
netherworld · city of the dead · Hades · dark realm · Atlantis
sky cityhell
Underworld of suffering
abyss · nether realm · dark realm · Hades · shadow realm
sky, city, skies, skyward, skyline, skylight, skyscraper, cities, citywide