City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"

[David Johnston2]

What kind of city wouldn't be?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

What kind of city wouldn't be?

One with either an awful lot of suggestive towers or domes with cupolas and pools with canoes.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

What kind of city wouldn't be?

Manly, Iowa

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by RyanW

Manly, Iowa

And on the other end of the spectrum, we have Virginville, PA.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

What kind of city wouldn't be?

A city that is noted for sending out small numbers of people to other cities, and in those other cities, join up with a larger number of people from those cities, and all set out to colonize a new location.

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

And on the other end of the spectrum, we have Virginville, PA.

No, Virginville is more the opposite of Conception Bay (or some towns in Newfoundland whose names I suspect won't get past the forum's censorware, so I won't even try mentioning them).

For the opposite of Manly, you want Lady, Poland

[Buzzardo]

There are at least two cities nicknamed "Queen City" (Cincinnati, OH, and Charlotte, NC) and one that is actually named Queen City (in TX). There's three with gender. Similarly, there's a King City in California.

[Ulzgoroth]

Mechanically speaking, a meaningfully non-Androgynous city would be one with an appearance of Beautiful or better which is significantly more visually appealing to people attracted to a particular sex.

What actual feature could produce this effect aside from maybe heavy use of attractive and gender-imbalanced statuary, I dunno...

Originally Posted by Anthony

A city that is noted for sending out small numbers of people to other cities, and in those other cities, join up with a larger number of people from those cities, and all set out to colonize a new location.

Male, female, or other reproductive model is very much separate from androgynous or gendered appearance.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

One with either an awful lot of suggestive towers or domes with cupolas and pools with canoes.

Many capitals with all the phallic towers and displays of masculine statues and monuments.
I think some of it has more to do with our primate ancestry equating raw height with power and safety, but the anatomical similarity doesn't hurt for a predominantly patriarchal species.

[whswhs]

I really cannot tell you why I wrote "most." It could just as well have been omitted, with GMs left to overrule it if they really thought they had a case for a city being gendered. About the only thing I can imagine is that in a fantasy world a city might have a human enough personality to be gendered, like Roma Dea or Carl Sandburg's Chicago, "hog-butcher to the world."