Planning a Region

[Eliteforce]

I've decided to drop my old region, it was too small and I like my cities to have elbow room.  I thought I should plan my cities out before I start them up.  I usually just go with the flow and plan as I go.  Now I would like to see what you think how I should plan out my region.

Original Pic-



Plan-

Red- High density urban areas
Blue- Medium to low density areas (outskirts and suburbs)
Yellow- Industrial Either dirty or HT
Pink- Farms

All unmarked areas will be minimally developed, there will be a few towns.
I'm thinking the pop. will reach 2-3 million when it's all done.

Do you think this is a good plan? Changes will be made to it as it fills in but they will be minimal. I'm interested to see what you think would be a good way of developing it!

[blakesterville]

I t would be neat to have a lot of suburban growth,(in the wedge between the urban areas.) but thats nothing I have ever thought of, it looks nice to me.(ps:nice region and plan.)


Hope this helps.

[ofptim]

i hope i can add a pic of my region to this topic? otherwise i could open my own.

Anyway,This picture is a more in detail planning of the Boston metropolian area. (part of my Boston regio)



Red = railroad, red dots are main stations
black = highway
orange = airport area
blue = BD
green = residential
yellow is industry

all tiles are large cities

[beutelschlurf]

moin ofptim,

that looks quiet interesting and well prepared, does your recreation cover the original areas? (like industrial areas, ...) what would be the next step, ... going for the detailed grid of the town i guess?

b_schlurf