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[[File:city narrows 5098.jpg|frame|For a good time, enter the dark alley.]]

 

{{quote|''Every town in the [[Multiverse]] has a part that is something like [[Discworld|Ankh-Morpork]]'s Shades. It's usually the oldest part, its lanes faithfully following the original tracks of medieval cows going down to the river, and they have names like the Shambles, the Rookery, Sniggs Alley... [[Wretched Hive|Most of Ankh-Morpork is like that in any case]]. But the Shades is even more so, a sort of black hole of bred-in-the-brickwork lawlessness. Put it like this - even the ''criminals'' were afraid to walk the streets. The Watch didn't set foot in it.''|''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'', '''Terry Pratchett'''}}

 

A subtrope of [[Wretched Hive]] and [[Wrong Side of the Tracks]]. It is [[Truth in Television]] to a degree; that degree being how much you can tell the inhabit of a real life version of this trope that [[Urban Segregation|they live in their city's arse end]] and not be given a [[Glasgow Grin]].

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== Anime & Manga ==

* The Walled City in ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'', presumably taking its name from the real world Kowloon Walled City that was used in the Bourne series below.

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