Real Life Cities in Your Campaign

[ajardoor]

Okay, ITT, we discuss what cities out of real life we use as settings for our games.

In particular, what kind of gameable material do you get from the real city? Why did you decide to use the city in your game? (For the sake of the thread, we'll be counting "renamed" or "fictionalized" (ala Liberty City in GTA4 as a stand-in for the real NYC) real life cities as counting.)

Like, if you were writing a Locations or Hot Spots supplement highlighting it, what would you include for the reader?

For example;
My current GURPS campaign (one of them) has a stand-in for Miami Florida as its setting - in particular, I emphasis both the city's chaotic reputation for natural disasters, violent drug wars and crazy antics. Big swampland is a great way to include tense scenes on murky waters with threats of gators and disease.