Tweets: Planning a City

[aldersprig]

I've been having fun plowing through ideas on Doomsday/Boom Town today, & I thought I'd share.

Okay, I needed to use Excel to figure it out, and some guesswork, as "footprint of a highrise"=hard to find. pic.twitter.com/hEmWKoxBc3

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

That's three inner walls, a double outer wall, and then the very middle area is a tower. (Similar to - but way shorter than - Kingdom Tower)

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

Kindgom tower: http://t.co/hk0LxrB23F)

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

The little lozenge shapes are farmland/public land; I'm not sure yet about the space between the outer walls & inner. Grazing?

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

Looking at the size of a medium city, I may need to make it bigger. Need to lay out some neighborhoods first.

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

This is probably NOT the plan I'm going with, as these are 1/2 acre lots in a half-mile-circle: approx. 174 lots/cir~ pic.twitter.com/BfR4cLXmnN

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

~cle if the circles didn't overlap (which makes a population of barely over a thousand, not really reasonable. Bigger circles, smaller lots)

— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014

I did some math, decided the circles need to be twice as big in radius, and also remembered apartment buildings, which I imagine will be in groupings near the center tower.

Still working on layout!