When I was a kid and played Sim City for the first time it was also the first time I was confronted with zoning. The whole concept of having a square grid and s

When I was a kid and played Sim City for the first time it was also the first time I was confronted with zoning. The whole concept of having a square grid and strictly separate residential/commercial/industrial zones seemed foreign to me. I understood slowly that there was plenty of cultural bias in the game. For me the most natural form of a city was that of a circle surrounding some central area. That would be the european bias I guess... We do have zoning as well of course, but in fact new laws are coming in place that aim for more of a mixture of spaces within a city. I think this is a great development.