There is a city of fantasy that is divided. But maybe this is not so unusual. Every large city is divided.

On one level, living space is shaped by the wealthy; on another, the poor and the marginalized. On one side is the part that always wants to be on show, as scene; on the other, the part that wants to be hidden, the obscene.

Metropolis, Fritz Lang's famous film, shows that division starkly, even though the city in the film is just a futuristic f