urban setting
Where buildings cluster
An urban setting is a city environment, as opposed to rural or suburban locations.
The phrase appears frequently in fiction, film, and academic contexts to describe where action takes place: The novel unfolds in a gritty urban setting.
It encompasses the physical landscape of buildings, streets, and infrastructure, but also implies the social density and pace of city life.
- apartment complexesMulti-building residential properties
- fire escapeOutdoor emergency exit route
- city blockUrban land parcel
- marketsTrade gathering places
- neighborhoodsResidential districts of towns
street corner · air quality · sidewalks · crowded streets · public transit · subway station · taxi cab · highways · subcultures · nightlife · rooftop bar · public spaces · gentrification · hustle · diversity · graffiti · bridges · skyscrapers
- American placesNew York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco
- filming locationsstudio, soundstage, backlot, set, forest scene
- literary settingsfictional world, story world, Hogwarts, Narnia, Middle-earth
- stagingstaging, stage, set, set design, set dressing
- settingsdefault, settings, template, configure, privacy settings
- Noirfemme fatale, detective, gumshoe, hard-boiled, trench coats
urban settingrural setting
Non-urban landscape
rural area · countryside · small town · farmland · village
urban settingwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
natural environment · backcountry · pristine nature · remote wilderness · frontier
urban settingpastoral setting
Idyllic rural scenery
rustic setting · country life · rural idyll · pastoral landscape · back-to-the-land