How can I make a good cityscape?

Cityscape is aerial view of city building arrangement, both high-rise and low-rise building. Many times a city is representated with its skyline, so it is important for your city to have at least one, otherwise your city will not look like a city.

Basic guide to build realistic skyline is place lowest building in the front and tallest building in the backside. Before you can make good cityscape you must know what Cityville building that are available to you.

In this process, it doesn't matter what kind of building (business/residential or municipal), just put your attention to categorizing these building by their height (low/middle/high and tallest).

Easiest way to make a good skyline is to take real world model as an example for your city. Refer to picture below when designing your cityscape and how you can also make a good one.

This picture is most basic form of Cityscape.

This picture below is complex cityscape of real world city master plan.
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10 real word beach city you can take as model to build great city.

All Cityville player are given same total about 70 squares land expansion to build their city, and the game is designed to be a beach or waterfront city. 40% of game map is watery environment that include the sea and river splitting the map into 2 zones. To build a great and realistic city you will need real world model about how the real city looks alike. Of course you can not simulate the real city even with 700 land expansions but you can take a small chunk of the city and plug that part into your city.

 There are many beach or waterfront cities in the world, other than Chicago and NYC. Here are the most popular beach city around the world that you can take as a model to build your city.

1. Dubai Beach City, United Arab Emirates
2. Honolulu, Hawaii
3. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4. Sydney, Australia
5. Miami, USA
6. First Beach, Vancouver, Canada
7. Cancun, Mexico
8. Singapore
9. Hongkong, China
10. Toronto, Canada