Stars And Cities

This is a recurrent theme that I am focusing on again. Stars and cities are important in sf, travel between stars and futuristic, technological cities, and they can be connected:

James Blish has cities flying between stars;

Arthur C. Clarke has a novel called The City And The Stars;

Brrian Aldiss' future history ends with the phrase, "...the old city and the stars";

Poul Anderson's Nicholas van Rijn story, "The Master Key," ends with a reference to the city beneath the stars;

Michael Moorcock has a novel called The City In The Autumn Stars;

both Isaac Asimov and Poul Anderson have an interstellar empire ruled from a fully urbanized planet;

in Anderson's Psychotechnic History, interstellar spaceships arrive at and depart from one city on one planet in each planetary system, Stellamont on Nerthus and Port Nevada on Earth.

Lastly, for now, without any direct reference to stars:

there are large enclosed cities on the future Earth in A Torrent Of Faces by James Blish and Norman L. Knight and in The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov, in the latter work capitalized as "Cities";

Clifford Simak has a future history called City because it is about the dissolution of cities.

In Anderson's Psychotechnic History and in Simak's City, rapid transportation and communication make cities unnecessary but, in the Psychotechnic HIstory, interstellar travel revives them although only one per planet.