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Zoning in other countries is easy to visualize, even though it's completely alien to the Sim City ways: I recall being disappointed in the first game, and SC200

Zoning in other countries is easy to visualize, even though it's completely alien to the Sim City ways: I recall being disappointed in the first game, and SC2000, because there was no way to make my home city. Residential zoning? My hometown doesn't have such designation at all, apartment buildings have commercial underneath in almost all cases, and office buildings and apartments end up sharing walls. Not that Sim City ever took traffic or parking even remotely seriously: Even in modern city builders, nobody attempts to represent the amount of space dedicated to surface lots in the US, because it'd look awful. It's always a fun exercise to, go to Google Maps, take a picture of the downtown of, say, St Louis, and then coloring every surface parking, or multi-level building solely dedicated to housing cars for commuters and sports events attendees: It's well over 30% of the surface area. Then people wonder why the city is dead after 5 pm

steveklabnik 3y ago
> Not that Sim City ever took traffic or parking even remotely seriously Hilariously, it did: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316222/simcity-lead-designer-stone-librande-talks-about-building-game https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316222/simcity-lead-desig... > "Our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots," SimCity lead designer Stone Librande says
silvestrov 3y ago
My favorite example of this is how much of Apple's old HQ that is taken up by parking: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=loc:37.332+-122.02964 http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=loc:37.332+-122.02964 Compare size of parking to the size of office buildings, which even includes a nice green area that most business buildings don't have.
- KptMarchewa 3y ago
  Property must be really cheap there to not even consider underground parking.
  - silvestrov 3y ago
    There is also underground parking! There are two entrance and exits: one right of bottom building, the other is west of the south-west building, next to the store.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  That link didn’t work for me. https://maps.app.goo.gl/mpwhpRhxX8wFzG9g7?g_st=ic https://maps.app.goo.gl/mpwhpRhxX8wFzG9g7?g_st=ic

steveklabnik 3y ago

> Not that Sim City ever took traffic or parking even remotely seriously Hilariously, it did: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316222/simcity-lead-designer-stone-librande-talks-about-building-game https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316222/simcity-lead-desig... > "Our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots," SimCity lead designer Stone Librande says

silvestrov 3y ago

My favorite example of this is how much of Apple's old HQ that is taken up by parking: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=loc:37.332+-122.02964 http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=loc:37.332+-122.02964 Compare size of parking to the size of office buildings, which even includes a nice green area that most business buildings don't have.

KptMarchewa 3y ago
Property must be really cheap there to not even consider underground parking.
- silvestrov 3y ago
  There is also underground parking! There are two entrance and exits: one right of bottom building, the other is west of the south-west building, next to the store.
lotsofpulp 3y ago
That link didn’t work for me. https://maps.app.goo.gl/mpwhpRhxX8wFzG9g7?g_st=ic https://maps.app.goo.gl/mpwhpRhxX8wFzG9g7?g_st=ic