Here’s where the action is: a crowded city, small by the standards of metropoles. No one has ever taken a census; estimates of the metropolitan area’s population (including the ’Burbs, Skylla and Traboc) range from half a million to 5 million people In the business and wealthy districts, the streets are broad, clean, and filled with the good-looking and powerful. Elsewhere the streets are narrow, twisted, filthy, and thronging with the those who don’t fit in well anywhere else in the world. Graffiti, often disturbing and usually enigmatic, adorns most surfaces.
The Edge is unofficially divided into several barrios, each surrounding a plaza.