Tweets: Planning a City
Aug. 4th, 2014 02:30 pmOkay, 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, 2014That'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, 2014Kindgom tower: http://t.co/hk0LxrB23F)
— Lyn the Thorne-Alder (@lynthornealder) August 4, 2014The 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, 2014Looking 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, 2014This 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, 2014I 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!