Favourite fantasy cities

I've just finished reading Finder by Emma Bull, where the quirky city setting of Bordertown is almost a character in the book. I'm trying to think of other great fantasy cities...

There's Vienne in The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells, with its decadent cafe society and its ghoul-infested sewers.

Tai-Tastigon in 'The chronicles of the Kencyrath' by p.c. hogdell, with its dead gods.

Ankh-Morpork, of course.

Any others?

Amber

Besides Vienne, Amber and Ankh-Morpork, mentioned above:

Sanctuary from the Thieve's World anthologies.
Hart's Hope (Inwit) from the novel of the same name.
De Lint's Newford.
HP Lovecraft's Arkham.
Mieville's New Crobuzon.
Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar.
McKillip's Caithnard from Riddle-Master of Hed.
Mary Gentle's city from Rats and Gargoyles.
Moorcock's Melnibone.
Gene Wolfe's Nessus from Book of the New Sun.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Eric Van Lustbader's isolated underground colony in the Sunset Warrior novels.
Peake's Gormenghast.
Martha Wells' Charisat from City of Bones.

Cittàgazze from The Subtle Knife

Tai-Tastigon and Ankh-Morpork absolutely--talk about cities with their own character. I would also nominate Adrilankha (Steven Brust).

I can't remember the name of the city, but I've always the main magical city in the Darksword Trilogy. It really came across to me as a magical place that couldn't quite be understood, diagnostic of the whole atmosphere of the trilogy.

Edit -- I think it was called Merilon?

Redwall Abbey is sort of like a city... >.>

I'm blanking on the name for the capital city of Tortall (from Tamora Pierce 's books). Somebody remind me. And then smack me upside the head. And then send me back to my parent's house so I can reread my old copies; this is embarrassing.

Also, I concur with Ankh-Morpork winning.

(Can I jump on a recent bandwagon and suggest Gotham? Or does Batman not count as fantasy? Or does Gotham just not count since it's also a name for New York?)

New Crozian in perdido Street OK it's a bit of an sf book, but very much a fantasy city.

Lothlorien, Minas Tirith or even Moria in the days of old.

Colour in Only Forward again abit SF crossovery.

8 tcr

Corus! I had to look it up. I knew it started with a C :)

#10 - I had to laugh at this. I used to work for Corus (formerly British Steel). They paid mega sums to an image company for the name. Do you think the company was laughing at them all along and had pinched it from the book ;)

11 infjsarah

*snicker* That's too funny.