City Depopulation Through Rural Development Thoughts

 

Here is an idea for the development of rural areas to increase housing and labor around farms. This will help depopulate large dense cities by stretching out the living areas along existing roads. This allows for rapid development. This is an attempt by me to create a visual of my idea.

Using SimCity4 Deluxe to design ideas -all rights applicable to EA / Maxis

a = major road (freeway)

b = a pollution control native hedgerow followed by several rows of fruit trees and berry bushes / vines as a living noise wall of food

c = a row of housing which would ( likely ) be farm working rural type persons

d = farms

e = community centers (small town type areas) with schools, hospitals, and social places like parks and restaurants. Probably have markets, warehousing / distribution, and light industrial use areas as well.

f = occasional small playgrounds and nature areas

Imagine this pic can be folded to create a mirror image on both sides of the main road.

To keep a neighborhood feel, I have dead end courts every so often to keep traffic on the main road.

Again we can fold this image and imagine two courts backing to each other have another public park area ( f ) in between them.

Comments and criticism are welcome.