This is the creatively named New City, a bustling little town of about 900,000. It's built on a collection of wards, each with a main street with expanding circles of roads out from the center and a heavy commercial center. Rings of greenery keep land values high. There are also several concentrated commercial zones, such as the one in the picture.
When it reached 300,000 I ran into a bit of a unique crisis: my city would not grow, despite the fact that there were thousands of avandoned buildings waiting for re-development! (The abandoned buildings came from the fact that when my power plants exploded I was usually running my computer overnight with the simulator running. I woke up one day to find my city totally abandoned and about $70,000 in the red. I took out about ten bonds to pay off that one). It slowly became apparent that the culprit was actually the high land values, which discouraged new residents from moving in. I solved the problem by bulldozing about a hundred parks.
Despite its size, crime is fairly low, due no doubt in part to the massive amount of recreational areas. Education and health are currently the highest in the nation, and everything is sustained at a tax rate of about 2 percent.
, which basically filled almost every single square on the map. I had something like 4 Fusions powering the city. Crime rate was medium in some places, but then again it was a true metropolis.
