Use extended metaphor

The city was a beehive. Its streets packed with the buzz of chatter

swarms of people. “beehive with queen bee” is the prime minister in the government building (quite literally The Beehive)

The city was a garden.

Can incorporate bees metaphor in a smaller sense while describing the various flowers/buildings and how there are an assortment of different ones, and how some buildings are the same. There are also some buildings/flowers which are the same as each other and next to one another.