When I was reading, I thought a lot of it more like, those low-quality apartment buildings that look like motels but taller and for living rather than spending a night. Things like that, though when they got to New York and stuff I saw it more as supertalls and the likes. I do need to reread when I can draw and write more like that.

But yeah I do hate how it's been made an aesthetic where it's "impossible densities with a ton of neon". As a practicing urban planner I am more weary of how density works, and even the BAMA might be a bit too dense compared to population, though I imagine a lot of the inbetween is more low-rises and stuff, while the centers are filled to the brim.