New Crobuzon includes many ghettos where xenian species live.
Humans are the dominant species, although the other species live, work and even, to varying degrees, interact socially and commercially with humans and with each other. New Crobuzon is a city-state in a strange world inhabited not only by humans but also by a wide variety of "xenians" - humanoid beings that are part insect, part bird, part cactus, etc. If well planned and conceived, novelistic sprawl can be beneficial for the environment of the imagination. This kind of sprawl, however, is not necessarily a bad thing. Perdido Street Station is itself a gargantuan, sprawling tale.
China Miéville's second novel, Perdido Street Station, is set in a huge, sprawling city called New Crobuzon. There's much talk these days of urban sprawl, of cities expanding in ever-increasing concentric circles, resulting in deforestation, the destruction of local ecosystems, increased automobile usage, pollution and encroachment on the habitats of other species.
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