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Is anyone one here a urban and regional planner (city planner) I studied architecture but took urban design electives during my course. I found the urban design aspect the more interesting side & am now lucky enough to be working for an architecture firm which routinely designs suburbs of 2000 homes or more. We are not answerable to the public directly - we work for developers who own large pieces of land & want to create communities within them. Hence while we don't designate zoning & transport infrastructure, we do lay out the streets & public facilities, deciding where the residential / retail / commercial buildings & parks are to go. Then we design each of the buildings themselves. Many found the urban design subjects hard at Uni because they're very theory & history oriented. I was lucky to be taught by an extremely inspirational & fast thinking American who has written several books on the subject. (Prof. Jon Lang). I had a strong leg-up simply from playing Simcity for as many years as I had. While I knew how to set out my cities & why I liked them, I didn't know the theories behind why I did things the way I did. Hence it was very satisfying to go to go to his classes every week & be presented with 8 new cities which showed different was of thinking about the things I was already doing, learning their successes & failures as judged by history. Unfortunately, in Australia urban consolidation has meant that most urban planners work in councils approving individual dwellings - ie deciding whether a proposed scheme meets the overall plan set out decades ago by someone else. If you're lucky enough to be involved in laying out new suburbs, sadly you might never live long enough to see it the way you planned it. In any case, I assure you of a rich & satisfying education if you choose to study urban design. Just like Simcity, it will change the way you think when you walk down the street. If nothing else, it will certainly enhance your city-building. I also assure you that a background in Simcity will put you well ahead of your classmates in your first year. Our final project was to invent & present a new city which was based on a typology we'd learnt about. I modelled it extensively in Simcity (for 14 weeks) & then decided in the last 2 days to somehow present it. I've attached it so that anyone thinking about studying urban design can maybe see the type of work you'll end up doing. It was ALL inspired by Simcity, and I topped the class with 90%. Love your work guys. https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//ashburton_park1.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//ashburton_park2.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//ashburton_park3.jpg align=baseline>

Great city, love your work. Can someone tell me HTF you boys get a) road bridges to go over land, and b) buildings of the same type wherever you want them? Are they ploppables? I always get various crud showing up, like this: Thanks.

Here is my largest city, River Peaks. Population 90,000. I basically went crazy with the terrain editor, then built the city as best I could. Below shows the zoning layout. I'm kinda pleased with it! =) It's the centre tile on my region map, which explains why it has so many highway connections. Any comments / suggestions? And here the region it sits within. As you can see, i'm finding it quite hard to make the regions fit together to look like a "realistic" landscape. The mountains become disjointed between every map. Maxis, in future, can you give us a tool which lets us terraform entire regions at once? =) Oh, and add Roundabouts, and street trams. =) Thanks.