The most important part of a city is transportation. Traffic is driving many people to be mad and uncomfortable, however, providing more public transit will definitely help with make the city more efficient and easier to go around. In any innovative city, people would like to have everything fast and the key element to that is making the architecture and the city planning work for it. Transportation is not only moving people around, they are also move the city forward. It is also safer for people and for the city overall. It reduce car accident by more than 90%. With that many streets will have more safety so even more cities will be walkable. That will help with peoples’ health. By having walkable cities, many people would walk to work, school, and shop. That will allow the city to have less traffic and more healthier air.
With transportation being the most important element to have a more healthier city, increasing green spaces and public services would definitely make the city more efficient. This would also involve architecture and landscape architecture to make the city have more green spaces and also having the more accessible to all people, this also will make the people spend more time outside and in the sun to be healthier and more active. City planning would help with make the future more faster and healthier with both providing more ways to transportation and with having more green areas within the city to help people. Urban design on the other hand is very important to have the city look clean and safe for all people to do all the activities and enjoy the services the city is providing.
In the city skyline all of these elements are in the game. While starting with the urban design. That is one of the element that can be very enjoyable and fun to create. While the city might not look exactly like the planning, but it would have the areas where the player have their touch on, it is fun to take part of every known city and having them all in one area to see how it would work together. While traffic is a huge part of having a successful city in the game, public transit play a big part to reduce and make the residents happy. You would see the increase of people moving into the city the more public transportation you would build. Green spaces is also a big element of making the city more efficient and making the residents enjoy living there. I think focusing on these element would make the game fun and more successful.
Our concept maps were kind of similar. Both of us focused on the important aspects of the three categories. Something you mentioned that I didn’t really think about was how “Future” connects with urban design and transportation. A lot of the ideas in my concept map were based on things for the present day, but City Planners are always thinking about the future which is very important. Something we both focused on was Efficiency. I also said this connected to both transportation and urban design.