In SC4 What are the demensions of a single square in a city...

[radioGOD]

In imperial demensions what does one square tile with in a city equal? 54x54 feet, etc. and how many of those tiles does it equal 1/2 mile 1mile etc. like 12x12 tiles equals 1 square mile etc.

[vester]

One tile is 16 x 16 meters.

From what I can figur 16 meters makes 52 feet 6 inches.

[El Burro]

Roughly, 1 mile its about 1600 meters so it's about 100 squares to a mile in Sim City scale.

10x10 would be roughly 1sq Mile

[mittfh]

If 1 tile is 16m, then in metric:
A small city (64x64) is 1,024m - just over 1km x 1km - 1 sq km (well, 1.048576 sq km)
A medium city (128x128) is 2,048m - just over 2km x 2km - 4 sq km (4.194304 sq km)
A large city (256x256) is 4,096m - just over 4km x 4km - 16km square ( 16.777216 sq km)

And in imperial:

16 meters = 17.4978128 yards = 17 yards 1 foot 5.92 inches

So a small city is: 1 119.86002 yards per side, that's 1 119 yards 2 feet 6.96 inches
As 1 mile = 1 760 yards, a small city is about 0.64 miles.

A medium city is 2 239.72004 yards, that's 1 mile 479 yards 2 feet 1.92 inches
So a medium city is about 1.27 miles, so we could round it down to 1 1/4 miles.

A large city is 4 479.44008 yards, that's 2 miles 959 yards 1 foot 3.84 inches
So a large city is about 2.55 miles, so we could round it down to 2 1/2 miles.

However, if you actually compare the in-game dimensions of practically anything with the 'real-life' dimensions, you'll quickly realise that accurate scaling has been compromised with many structures. A classic example is airports.

The main runways at most UK airports are 46m wide (3 tiles), and vary in length from just over 1km to nearly 4km.
Heathrow is 3902m long - that's 244 tiles. As it has two runways, and all the terminal buildings in between, would you really want that quantity of your city occupied by a single airport?

You might be able to get away with accurately representing small runways (probably for light aircraft) - Inverness has one 700m long by 18m wide. With a bit of creative license, we could squeeze that into 44 tiles long by 1 tile wide. Still considerably longer than SimCity's offerings.