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I'm not sure what you could call it if it was to fit into a genre. It's the kind of vast cityscape rich with detail and texture you only find in anime and manga. Cyberpunk doesn't fit because it's actually devoid of many key cyberpunk elements, it's not exactly futurism because futurism is an embrace of clean fast looking shapes, and industrialism.
As>>428737says, these kinds of cityscapes are very much inspired by slums in China and Japan, that are very much a rejection of order and... permanance? Like, everything's just randomly bolted together, tied down, etc. It's just a slum on a large scale. An organic city almost. (though the size of it perhaps implies more money is involved, or perhaps rather, that that particular way of organising a city is not frowned upon by the government?)
I dunno, I'm babbling you might want to check out the city of Kowloon, which was pretty much the closest thing to this until it was torn down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
Also check out the movie Tekkon Kinkreet, it features a city similar in rich detail, though it's not got as many levels to it.
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