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Hello everybody! While I am new to posting on Simtropolis I am not new to Sim City. Recently, my interest was drawn back to Sim City due to the release of Sim City 2013, which I hope to obtain sometime this week. However, I have had heard the criticism, most notably due to the size allowed for cityscapes in the new game, and thus I seek to make use what we have and experiment with different styles of city (notably road) construction and innovative designs. Once I get the game I (and hopefully a few others) will be testing various road designs in order to pump out the most # of buildings in the least area size. To start off, I am going to use residential neighborhoods from real life, particularly from my neighborhood, in constructing 1950s urban sprawl replicas in order to cut down the amount of space normally taken up by roads and other forms of transportation. To demonstrate, I will be posting a few pictures of neighborhoods taken from google images (with respect to copyright) and then recreating it in Sim City over the course of the next two weeks. Which ever neighborhood is most space efficient and pumps out the most population (# of sims) will be "rewarded" as the most efficient way to create populated neighborhoods, and I hope my project will be of some use to the Simtropolis community. Here's some pictures to get started with. This neighbor is typical of post 50s America, and judging by the roads and roofs I would place it somewhere in the south. As you can see, it is extremely dense and there is no space not privately owned: Another bigger, more centralized neighborhood. As you can see, there is something civic in the center of the neighborhood, and off to the sides are commercial buildings: Here's a concentric city design, similar to the last one but circular. Theoretically, the circle design would allow for the most amount of buildings in the least amount of space, granted Sim City doesn't screw us up on this one: I cannot wait to recreate some of these designs on Sim City! I'll post my results later in the week, along with the statistics of the city like the population. If you'd like to also try, go ahead. I'd be interested to see what you'd come up with.
