5 Basic design lessons that can help you build great city.

You may ask your self when looking at your city, "Do I want to live in this city?". Your answer can determine the quality of your city. Great city in Cityville doesn't have anything to do with your level, or the size of your city. Great city determined by how you design and how your city looks like. So before you can develop a great CV city, first you must understand some underlying factors that define a great city.

Surely everyone has different opinion about how great city definition, but as daily player whom seen a lot of great cities, all of them share something in common that you can use as basic guideline for building your city.

It has a great layout planning and design.

City planning or more popular with urban planning is crucial element to build great city, that includes city layout, infrastructure, social, ecological and many other factors. As you take the role as urban planner when play Cityville, so knowing basic logic of urban planning will greatly enhance how great your city look.

Great city always developed with planning. Without planning your city will going nowhere close to any dream because you may not even have a dream when you start to play Cityville.

Such in the real world there is no city developed without planning, if you want to have great city you have to start with your dream of ideal city.

Very close to city realism.

Unlike Sim-City that heavily brought realism to the game, Cityville have different approach to city building game by making and is more toy city oriented, but many great player who have high creativity are successful enough to make this toy city game look like real city.

So it is good for you to take reference of how real city looks like before you place and arrange your buildings in CV. Important building such as Eiffel Tower or Malls would be a lot better if arranged to mimic its reality.

Has clear, recognizable city zoning.

Every city always has several fixed elements.
1. Residential area.
2. Business area.
3. Community / municipals (schools, hospital, etc.
4. Governmental buildings  (administration, police,
5. Facilities area
As the city grows additional facilities can be added to make the city more habitable and pleasant place to live.
1. Parks and amusement area.
2. Factories and industrial area.
3. Landmarks
Great city has clear zoning and clear border for each area. Good arrangement of these zones will make a good city shape and pleasant look of overall city.

Great cities has a balance and harmony between buildings, decoration and empty space.

Decoration is cosmetics for your city, which enhance both look and function of your building. You don’t have to be architect or landscape designer, but some sense of art and creativity are required to make good arrangement of building and decoration.

Example of good decoration scheme.

Good decoration arrangement will take a lot of time and design efforts to build. If you don’t enjoy art and design much you will have a hard time to arrange good decoration schemes.

That's why I write this blog that I hope can help any Cityville player start to make good decoration scheme for their city.

Great cities always has a good cityscape/skyline

Example of City-scape 

City-scape is aerial view of city section that mainly the zone high-rise building and sometime called skyline. Good cityscape is another important foundation of great city because it represent the shape of your city.

There is no specific rule in the game to make good city scape. A random building placement can still make good cityscape is arranged by good designer, but for general rules you can simply use low to high arrangement.

There are many other factors how real urban planner develop the city master plan such as how to avoid traffic jam, social interaction, ecological, sustainability,etc. Understanding these important factors will make big different to the final shape of your dream city.