Well, that's a LOT easier than how I've been doing it!

Personally, I really like the wall! I look at it and imagine all kinds of uses for the space inside it - barracks, barrios, research facilities, etc.

Thanks, Jim. Thanks, Remy.

Hi Bromdon. I did something very much like what you're describing with the Free City of Courvile.

Once I had the general size and shape of the city and surroundings laid out, I went hunting through the symbol catalogues for buildings of different styles, and made each area of the city a slightly different style of building to help set them apart from each other.

Cyberpunk has become such a broad category! I hear the term and the first thing that comes to mind is Shadowrun - it was my introduction to cyberpunk when FASA first published it in the (late 80's? early 90's?). But then there's also Blade Runner (released pre-Shadowrun but not discovered by me 'till after I played Shadowrun and became interested in the genre). Now we've got Altered Carbon, which leans more heavily to the science fiction side, but still has strong cyberpunk elements - especially in the first book of that series.

So for me, a cyberpunk style needs three different "looks" for its map assets:

1. Gritty streets and alleys, with debris and trash, flickering street lights and neon lights. Some of these would be isolated/empty back alleys, and some would be crowded, with lots of storefronts, shops, etc.
2. Slick, modern buildings and skyscrapers where the corps exist. Office buildings, luxurious homes. Maybe varying degrees of Oriental influence, since many cyberpunk settings (from my youth, at least) seem to feature tech takeovers by the far eastern cultures.
3. Not necessarily unique to Shadowrun, but certainly first encountered there by me, "back to nature" assets for those storylines that feature the conflict between the natural (and supernatural) world and the encroachment of technology. These could be harvested from other styles, of course - there are already tons of fantasy style assets out there since fantasy type maps are so prevalent.

It could easily become one of the "two annual" styles - maybe a "Cyberpunk Street Chum" and a "Cyberpunk Corp" style, each focused on one element of the overall genre.