Wakanda, the kingdom that takes center stage in Black Panther, shows a vision of a city that actually works. | Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios

Thought-provoking set design and urban insights on the big and small screen During the age of peak television and rapidly proliferating streaming services, TV and film viewers have had more choices than ever, making it that much harder for anything to break through the clutter. But even in an era with fewer common cultural touchstones, there were spaces and places we saw on screen that were particularly memorable and significant.
In keeping with Curbed?s interest in set design, and how it reflects architecture, urbanism, and design trends, we?ve curated a list of nine settings from film and television that helped define the last decade. This selection isn?t intended to be a list of the best examples of each genre. It?s not even a list of the most influential. But it does aspire to list the places, the settings, that helped capture the aesthetic and visual tone of the 2010s, and perhaps help, in some way, to explain the decade.
Wakanda, Black Panther

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In Black Panther, the city of Birnin Zana combined traditional African architecture, incredibly sophisticated urban technology, and next-level public transit.

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