14. Functionality and Layout - Cyrus Harbour Overview, Circulation and Zonings
Just like the previous work, let's start with a bird eye view of the entire city
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Cyrus Harbour - Introduction
Founded at the river mouth at the north-west side of Benzihor Region, Cyrus Harbour is one of the cities those are built along the coastline of the North Sea. The advantageous terrain of the area has made Cyrus Harbour a complex yet elegant harbour city. The main economic drivers of Cyrus Harbour include leisure and commercial tourism, trade and finance management. In addition the beautiful landscape of the Cyrus Harbour has attracted a considerable number of mid and high level of income citizens to settle and invest, whose villa and detached houses can be found alone the coastline, together with their luxury yachts.
Challenge and Theme
Obviously, the theme is Harbour City. One of my favourite theme is coastal city and I am going to implement it once again. Port and coastal landforms, ships and bridges, as well as buildings vs terrain are the major topics. The greatest challenge of this is probably the non-uniform landmass of the city. Aside from the water, only limited amount of land are flat and most of them are quite 'hilly'. Hopefully the strategy of building around the hill and along the coastline is a successful one.
Reference to the Real Cities
Cyrus Harbour is heavily influenced by Sydney in Australia in terms of landform and urban typology. As a real 'Harbour City', I think Sydney has a lot to offer in urban creation and management (I mean, in both the game and real world application). Moreover, the city is also being influenced by several other cities like Melbourne, San Francisco and Hong Kong.
Transportation System
Cyrus Harbour is a car-based city, as highway (the yellow route in the image) goes around the hills and across the sea to connect neighbouring cities at the east, south and west. There is also the light rail system (the purple line in the image) as a supplementary method to travel. On the other hand sea transport is well-developed, there are numbers of ferry terminal connecting from point to point. Cyrus Harbour has 2 cruise terminals, Inner Bay Terminal is smaller and older but it is near the city, yet Cyrus docks is bigger and brand new. The mountainous region at the east has train terminal connecting the mountain lines, an additional touch is that people can also use the helicopter terminal to fly to other area.
This is for today. As always comments and feedbacks are welcome 
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