The city scapes are mainly in relation to places in America only, in order to show the cultural environment of crime. The introduction explores the significance of crime in urban cities and why it has heavily impacted crime stories especially within the past 50 years. Willet gives a brief historical background towards the reasoning behind urban crime becoming more significant in literature. The inclusion of social history, semiotics and popular literature are explored within this book. The introduction opens up a broad range of places and how it effects the socio ecomonic status of today s society.
City scapes bring human and crime into the same scene, therefore giving humans a sense of placement.
To disregard city scapes would be like ignoring anything vaguely human, like socio economic status, gender, physiology and psychology. The city can show the status of people. The ergonomics of the city can set the characters, as well as the scene. Down in the city slums lives to prostitutes and the scum of human kind. In the high rise buildings work the executives, who enjoy their status as it allows them to be separated from the scum down below.