There are many of ways to plot out your city, but some of them don't save space. There are a couple of reasonable ways to save space. First, make your city in grid formation with squares of four plots of land. (See SIMPLOT.BMP also included in this package) The citizens need a fast way to get around, etc. Frequently place fire departments and police stations to fight crime and fires. Put them in one block, sharing the land. The safe ratio to stop crime is 1:3 for houses, commerce and indrustrial to police stations and fire departments.
POLLUTION
There are some good tecniques to control pollution.
1. Try destroying some of the bigger indrustrial plots and put newer ones in.
2. Build railroads, not roads because cars can jam up and make pollution. This will cut doown on pollution and traffic.
3. Use nuclear plants instead of polluting coal plants.
MONEY
One way to make money is first get a good sized population (Try to be a city in 10 years with very little houses.) Then, lower the taxes as far as they will go. The next year, raise them as hight as they will go, but it's okay that some people move, but if you put them back to normal, all of the people plus more will move back.
POPULATION
To get people to move in, put in a couple of parks. Also, put the indrustrial zones away from the residential zones. Indrustrial causes crime and pollution, the two main things that people move away from the city. To cure unemployment, make more commercial zones. The more residential zones you have, the more commercail zones you need; the more commerce you have the more indrustry you need and so on.
FINAL HINTS
Never build quick, but gradually as the computer requests. Always leave transportation, police and fire and 100% to keep roads up, and to stop crime and fires.
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