In this guide, I will show you that you don’t just have to select your zones in large blocks, you can be a bit more creative and allow for more building variety as well. If you just select the entire zonable area by each road, most of the buildings by default will take a full 4×4 square, the only time you will have seen smaller buildings would have been where the zonable grid has been broken up, like on bends or with junctions with other roads for example. However, the game includes buildings to fit all sizes from 4×4 right down to a single 1×1 square.
Residential, 1×1 and 1×2 zoning
For the first part, I’ll be showing you how to create a nice row of back to back terraced houses. I’ll be zoning for 1×2 size houses in low density, you can go for 1×1 if you like but I prefer them to have gardens! In this pic you can see I’ve drawn a set of side roads that are four squares apart, this is easy to judge as the game’s marker guides space at four block intervals. Then, I’ve marked out the 1×2 zones individually using the small zoning paint tool. This is the important bit as you are restricting the available size to the 1×2 squares.
Let the game run on for a bit and so long as you have residential demand, you should start to see them all fill up.
Once they have all filled up, then you can zone in the rest of the squares, the large brush tool is easiest as you can just paint over the whole block. Once this is done, they rest of the empty spaces should begin to fill up. You are not restricted to 1×1 or 1×2 either, on the main street to the right here, I used 2×2 blocks for some larger houses.
If you want a real tightly packed neighborhood, you can use single 1×1 squares for a real ‘Coronation Street’ feel and I love how these level 3 houses fit into this.
Commercial shopping streets
The same techniques can be used in Commercial as well to make things more interesting. Here, I’m zoning a small retail area next to some high density residential using the same method as above.
Filling in the gaps:
And complete, a nice little street full of little shops, instead of all the larger businesses that would have popped up if i’d just filled the entire block in one go. This is a nice idea to put in blocks of high density residential and a nice touch would be to connect to both sides using pathways from the parks menu.
Industrial
I’ll finish with a couple of Industrial shots and don’t forget Offices can be laid out like this as well, hope you found this guide useful and that you can make some more interesting layouts with it, happy building!
Source: Play Skylines.
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