#Simcity 4 city design mods#

The UN projects that Tokyo, currently the world's largest city with around 38 million people, will decline slightly by 2030, but continuing the boom will be cities in India and China.Дelhi's population, which is now at 25 million, is expected to grow by another 11 million in the next 16 years-a major concern when basic infrastructure is already a fundamental issue for many in the city, as well as residents of cities like it. Image: Peter RichieДЄnd all the while, more people will keep swelling urban ranks. Reminds me of living in SГЈo Paulo, but more so. Even if robot farmers end up feeding us all, the type of growth we can expect in the future presents staggering infrastructure demands. Now imagine trying to keep up with the booming growth of real cities, whose mayors have far less dictatorial powers-and no pause button.

This reduces the impact of the worst pollution to the residents.' 'Heavy polluting structures are clumped between groups of four mega-cities, as are airports, and energy infrastructure. Related: An Artist's Renderings of Our Future Cities (If Everything Goes Wrong) The roadways are clogged at all times, but people still persist in trying to use them.' 'The massive amount of subway lines and subway stations are still congested during all times of the day in all neighborhoods of each and every mega-city in the region. 'Traffic is a nightmare, both above ground and under,' Richie said.

The advantage of building a virtual city is the ability to start from scratch.

#Simcity 4 city design mods#

Richie told me that he initially came up with the goal for a 100 million person region 'using no mods and no cheats' back in December, and spent a couple months planning things out before beginning construction in March. I'll let Richie's stats speak for themselves:ДЁ1 large city tiles to make one Mega-RegionДЈ24 Hydrogen power plants (6,000,000 megawatts of energy) Peter Richie spent eight months planning and building a megacity in vanilla SimCity 4, and the end result is mind-boggling (especially as a former mayor myself): 107.7 million people living in one massive, sprawling region. The video above gives us a glimpse, even if it's based on an 11-year-old video game (but a pretty realistic one at that). Keeping a city of that size running is challenge enough, but what happens when they morph into sprawling regions with populations ten times larger? The same report also notes that in 1990, there were ten megacities of 10 million people or more on Earth now there are 28, 16 of which are located in Asia.