How do you zone residential and commericial for max happines?

[wags13604 11]

I tend to draw roads pretty much in a gridlock pattern for efficiency. So I have a bunch of squares. I tend to do mostly residential then every now and then I'll fill in a random square with commercial. I'm not sure if this is the best though. In Sim City 4 commercial was supposed to be in a centralized region surrounded by as much commercial as possible. I'm imagining the same is true for SimCity 2013?

[GoalLineStalker 0]

It's pretty well suspected that the "central commercial with all roads leading through it" model isn't ideal in SC. If you want to grid it, you're better off having Residential in the middle with Commercial near the road/rail and Industrial downwind. Otherwise, you can do quarters, with an avenue from Residential directly to Commercial and an avenue from Residential directly to Industrial. Since goods don't travel at rush hour, and Sims don't travel direct between Commercial and Industrial, you don't need streetcars/avenues between Commercial and Industrial.