List of Urbz by location
A list of Urbz from The Urbz: Sims in the City.
South Side Bridge
Southside Bridge is based on Mafia-controlled Brooklyn, New York, with style cues taken from The Sopranos television series (including their taste in music derived from the show's theme song).
Gasoline Row
Gasoline Row depicts members of biker culture. The fact that Duke (below) runs a "chop shop" would suggest a criminal, aka one percenter or outlaw motorcycle club (akin to Hells Angels). It's also notable that while most of the subculture prefers large American motorcycles, aka "hogs" or "choppers", Jet Rockit among others uses a Japanese sport bike, aka "rice burner" or "crotch rocket".
Diamond Heights
Diamond Heights is unique in the sense that the "district" is the top floor of a skyscraper, possibly alluding to Manhattan. It depicts glitzy and glamorous lives of celebrities, particularly in the world of fashion, fashion journalism and runway modeling.
Neon East
Neon East is Japanese culture-oriented, and is comprised of rave and Japanese fashion circles. Influences on their wardrobe may include the Japanese fashion magazine Fruits or, much more likely, Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Girls backup dancers who made the culture known in America. Other well-known cultural influences are readily present, such as sushi and anime/manga.
Kick Tail Park
Kick Tail Park shares visual similarities with Times Square, and the residents found there are all avid skateboarding fans, as well as skate punk music. The punk influence often blurs the line between them and the Central Station crowd; this is addressed in the game in the form of Central Station being located right below Kick Tail Park, and reasonable common ground between the two subcultures (although Skid once refers to them as "freaks").
Skyline Beach
Skyline "Beach" is located on several apartment rooftops during a rooftop barbecue (which is sometimes practiced in Hell's Kitchen, NY). The residents of these buildings are heavily influenced by Hip-Hop and ghetto fabulous movements.
The Foundry
The Foundry is located in the industrial park, houses a design studio and is heavily based on Andy Warhol's factory. The residents all fancy themselves artists and designers, and some of their influences may be modern artist Andy Warhol or European high fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Central Station
Central Station is a subway, complete with one section of non-working subway cars taken over as a hangout for emo and goth subcultures.
Cozmo Street
Cozmo Street consists of a bar and music venue on the waterfront, and its nearest surroundings on the street. The residents there are all real-life members of the Black Eyed Peas, an extremely famous American pop-rap group who recorded most of the songs heard in the Urbz.
As for the game canon, will.i.am (usually seen as the frontman of the group in real life) is shown to be the owner and proprietor of the bar. The real-life musicians exist as a band together, but it is never explicitly stated whether or not they are famous within the game.
All members of the Black Eyed Peas:
- Will.i.am
- Apl.de.ap
- Taboo
- Fergie
- Polo (Polo Molina, the BEP's tour manager)