I have just created an 85k city in one of those small land areas. I never knew how to build skyscrapers, so all of my much larger land area towns are bout 50k and all filled in... I was well past 50k in about 8 years...
I just went from low density, to medium, to high. I would upgrade the land areas everytime they would fill in with the previous development. It took me till high density in residential till I could upgrade the industrial to high and commercial to medium. Then, before I quit, I replaced all the industrial with a municiple and international airport, this boosted my business alot. I just got rush hour today so the features help like the newer wider avenue.
I don't have any photos of it, but it looks neat with Seafirst right between the large skyline of residential and medium of offices.
Also, eliminating the industrial really allowed for high wealth co's to move in.

Place industrial far away from CO, CS, and R$$/R$$$. That's always importiant if you want them to move in.


When you get Rush Hour and play it on an old city the city just has a massive burst of development. That annoyed me because it took up all my space for the new roads! ;) I deleted most of my old cities. Got too annoying trying not to have a massive "urban renewal" when placing new transit/roads.

cool. i've got one or 2 cities on the small tile that are around 80,000. one's insane because there's a lot of water on it, too, so it kind of looks like Hong Kong.
what's wrong with the boom? the boom is awesome.

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The boom is great. My city going from 100,000 to 300,000 is not. I was not prepared with roads, mass transit, police, schools, or anything! So, I deleted them and strated over. :D

well, I recreated Kansas City, and its over 100,000 people. looks nice too.

Awsome!

I know you want to show it to us! ;)

i just deal with the boom...it's more realistic that way.

:cheers:

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ill see if I can remember to do it tomarrow. i hope i can remember though.