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Not Free Market Nor Socialism, there are several examples and lets remember that this countries hold a different stock of resources and social capital Hong Kong: was and still is the Freerer Economy in the world with the purest capitalism, yet achieved high growth rates (even today), trade surplus and income levels approaching those of US, low taxes, low or nil regulation in several fields and no minimun wages are the rules, income inequality is higher than US, yet this is reasonable as large groups of boat people and other migrants with low skills come from poor nations. on the other side there are the nordic nations block, they weren't the paradise of the 21th century, they actually struggled over the 90's and while boomed in the 80's this was mostly due a real estate bubble and with per capita incomes still below some leading European Nations. they are sucess due big fund due oil (Norway), High Tecnology Manufacturing shift (Sweden and Denmark), and the born of a Mobile Companies (Finland), they also have small populations like Hong Kong, but with a broader resources base, also culturally they moved towards a heavier tax burden to cover the population with health, education and poverty. But. This model is hard to export to other nations, as this respond to a cultural root, hard to impose in North America, Latin America, UK, Spain or several nations about the Minimun Wage is just a level set by the goverment, even thus this could be use to improve or worsen the real income of the workers UK recently established their own, along with Germany, even with out minimum wages both enjoyed high wages in most of the pay scale, the minimiun wage was previously established according to offer and demand, so with very poor pay jobs, the people wouldn't be taking them. Mexico is a country with a long history of minimun wage, this (in nominal way) keep rising but real wages had times of stagnation or decline, this was a goverment trick to boost investment for labour intensive activities with this increasing the competitivity, without making social investments (health, education, security, etc). Other thing that should be remaked, is that Nordic Economy ain't Socialism, but a Market Economy orientated to the society and to give them more, while private companies and individuals accept the "high price" the taxes represent to maintain high levels of human development and high levels of security, also to maintain a broad middle class. The toold to achieve such high standards are available for all the nations, but the option to use it and how to use them depend solely in the goverment decisions, the cultural background of the nations and how the population support or/and participate in such iniciatives.

i hold high hopes on Cities Unlimited, as they are lisening SC4 Followers and they can take advantage from the SCS wreak, as the City Simulation remains with a hole in the market, that only SC4 (a game from 2003) is filling alone.

What it worked for me in previous cities, was to redevelope the affected area, reclaiming a piece of the affected district, redo the streets and widening, adding trees, parks in the most affected locations, and sometimes improving underground connections, demolish a building or to, or an entire block or set of blocks, and replace them with parks, is an easy way to redevelope, very cheap, and very effective.

not at all but i have a few tricks yet (like downsizing a bit the map about 20% or 25% to make the terraformer or the mapper work) thanks for ask and i will be eager to see your next maps

any here have a strong performance lag as a large map is played?, because i have a decent machine i guess (4 ghz, 1 gb ram, Nvidia 8500 GT with 512 memory), but yet with over 100,000 habitants in big maps, all start to turns very sluggish and unpleaseant gaming experience, while i notice that several city journals play in large cities (4x4 km), any tip or somethig? and i love that map... are more uber regions coming?