Ambrosia

Ambrosia is the capital and most populous city of Tiperyn. It is also the capital city of Grand Duchy of Tipslan and headquarters of the First Apostolic Church. Ambrosia is considered the cultural capital of the Tipslansk-speaking population of Tiperyn. The city is located in southeastern Tiperyn, situated on the northern coast of Ambrosia Bay.

The city's namesake is usually applied to an of 2,475 km2 composed of the city center—considered the financial and tourist capital of Tiperyn—the government district, and 32 suburbs. As of 2019, approximately 8.2 million people lived in this area, with its inhabitants referred to as "Ambrosians". The term Ambrosia is also sometimes applied to the Ambrosia Statistical Zone, which also includes the surrounding Ambrosia and the cities of Oerwacht 150 km east and St-Danielleparochie 100 km southwest of the city.

Ambrosia is believed to be Tiperyn's oldest city still standing, although this has been disputed by the city of Rostrenenn where Celtic towns have continued to exist since before the Teutonic expansion of the mid 12th century to the early 14th century. The city has been the traditional home of the House Highal, Tiperyn's ruling family. The bayside city was crowned as the nation's capital in 1345 following the end of the House Wars and the unification of Tiperyn under House Highal.

The North-South Concordant's (NSC) Ambrosia Office is considered to be the northern headquarters of the alliance, with the primary headquarters located in the Koryeo capital of Sudo. The Tiperyn capital is also the location of the Concordant Cosmological Mission's headquarters and control center, although launches themselves occur from the Agrana y Griegro's islandic territory of San Luis in Western Kesh.

The Ambrosia Aerodrome on the city's northern fringe is the largest and most active airport in Tiperyn, having served 61 million passengers in 2018. The city and inner suburbs are connected via the country's largest public transport network of trains and trams. Additionally, the Grand Duchy of Tipslan operates a high-speed rail network that also services cities within the Idlerein, Wittenlan and Steinsen. However, there is very little connection between the country's cities and its regional townships and communities outside of freight rail and a small number of bus services on public motorways. There are no public transport services between Ambrosia and the majority Celt duchies and principalities of Rosraig, Darimh and Poc'her in the west.

Geography
Ambrosia is in the southeastern part of Tiperyn within the Grand Duchy of Tipslan overlooking the Ambrosia Bay, itself pouring out into the Holy Channel. The city's government and financial centers are located at the mouth of the Blaugles River where it empties into the Ambrosia Bay. The city center and government district were built on the west and southern banks of the Blaugles, which now separates most of the interior of the city from outlying industrial areas.

Of Ambrosia's beaches, only the Bay Beach on the south edge of the city center and government district is open to the public. All other beaches are either included in industrial charters or otherwise closed to public leisure.

Urban structure and architecture
The heart of Ambrosia is its city center, which is a 2 by 2 kilometer grid of streets built from 1926 to 1939. Several of Ambrosia's oldest suburbs were demolished preceding construction to allow for the new development to border the government district. Today, the Ambrosia city center is the financial and business capital of Tiperyn, home to among the largest multinational mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing companies in the North-South Concordant and the world. It is also considered to be the cultural capital of the ethnically Tipslansk Tiperyn population, home to the Ambrosia Opera House, Tiperyn Realm Academy of Language and Her Empresses' Own Museum of Ambrosia.

The adjacent government district is home to the majority of the federal government's executive buildings, representative offices to the Noble Congress from Tiperyn's various duchies and principalities, embassies and consulates, the capital's Tiperyn Realm Defence military garrison, and iconic monuments. The government district is the oldest surviving area of Ambrosia, its roads and significantly more irregular than the grids of the city center and newer surrounding business parks. This is because the government district was not planned, and its roads have evolved from horse trails that date back to the 14th and 15th centuries. Due to the gap in the development of the city's districts, there is a harsh transition between the and  of the government district and the sleeker Art Deco and new millennium-style skyscrapers of the city center.

As the eastern and northern outskirts of Ambrosia were largely dominated by quarries prior to industrialization—and there are still a large number of basalt quarries throughout Tipslan and Idlerein—most walkways, foundations and some structures in the government district and city center are constructed from the stone. In the case of the government district, most of this stone was sourced from now gone Ambrosian quarries, while the newer city center's basalt come from regional Tipslan quarries. Here, bluestone was mostly used for nostalgic reasons. The city center has a higher number of newer buildings constructed from bluestone than the government district, where most buildings are made from with sandstone or bluestone trim.

Both the government district and city center overlook the Ambrosia Bay to the south, which itself is lined by an underground motorway and train line. Bay Beach is one of the site of the most developed waterfront residential districts and most popular public beach in the country. The government district and city center are surrounded by business and office parks, which are then again surrounded by a ring of industrial zoning and low-income public housing. Ambrosia is home to a major seaport on its east side which sees a large amount of primarily coal, iron, agricultural products, timber and natural gas pass through it. This region also has several landfills, recycling centers, natural gas processing plants and two large brown coal-fired power stations. These facilities are a significant source of pollution—particularly sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and oxides of nitrogen. Although downwind relative to the city center and government districts, it has been observed that air pollution from these sites, as well as odours from nearby landfills, heavily impact several disadvantaged public housing suburbs, including Legested and Rykdelte, in Ambrosia's northeast side.

Interspersed between the industrial districts on the city's fringes are public housing districts that are populated mostly by low-income and low-skill employees of the nearby industry. The prevailing structures of these areas are high-rises, often grouped into multi-building complexes. The majority of the public housing suburbs were built in the 1950s and 1960s through the destruction of outlying suburbs and mostly low-income townships. All housing and commerce in public housing districts are government owned. There is very little public transport in these areas, with the exception of company buses that ferry employees from the public housing blocks to their employment. Additionally, tree cover in these areas is below 3 per cent of total land use, as opposed to the 10 per cent of the city center and 19 per cent of the government district.

Housing
Unlike many cities in Tiperyn, there are no build height limits in or around the capital city. Low-density residential housing is very uncommon outside of regional Tipslan, and the majority of Ambrosians live in public housing high rises and residential skyscrapers. The majority of Ambrosia's traditional buildings outside of the government district were demolished throughout the 18th and 19th centuries as industrialization took hold of the region. Following a large population spike and push for modenization in the early 20th century, significant infrastructure projects were carried out. The most significant was the creation of a new city center adjacent to the government district organized into a street grid and composed almost entirely of commercial and residential skyscrapers. Meanwhile, the majority of the outlying low- and medium-density residences of Ambrosia's suburbs were for the most part seized and replaced with public housing. The last remnants of Tiperyn's traditional residences exist in the government district, where many of the medium-density still exist. These areas are inhabited mostly by nobility, foreign diplomats, and the country's business elite.

There is a high level of socio-economic stratification and segregation in Ambrosia, with low-income residents being concentrated in high-density public housing suburbs mostly on the east side and northern outskirts. The eastern districts are concentrated near the Ambrosia Dockyards and surrounding industrial facilities, such as oil refineries, manufacturing facilities, and landfills. Meanwhile, the northern districts are in close proximity to the Ambrosia Aerodrome and major rail terminals where cars carrying coal, iron, steel and other goods are transferred from regional freight trains to city trains bound for the Ambrosia Dockyards. These areas have only very limited, and at times prohibitively expensive, public transport access to the interior of the city and are essentially enclaves of residences surrounded by industry.

Meanwhile, the majority of Ambrosia's higher income population lives in the city center. Affluent high density housing is concentrated in the city center's southern blocks overlooking Ambrosia Bay and directly adjacent to both the financial and government districts. This area has the highest density of public transport in Tiperyn, mostly composed of segregated tramways and underground train tunnels that connect the city center directly to the airport and the business parks that divide it from the industrial and public housing zones.