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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[DCAU] So, I went to Gotham City to visit a family friend, why does the entire city have a film noire aesthetic?
gpt
Basically, it goes back to the 1850s, when a prominent citizen named Solomon Wayne hired an architect named Cyrus Pinkney to design many of the city's public buildings. He basically invented the Gotham Style of architecture, and many of those who followed aped his approach, resulting in the city's current aesthetic.

It's not universal, of course; there's plenty of modern architecture across the city, and the suburbs basically look like suburbs anywhere else. But Old Gotham still follows Pinkney's vision.