Willis M2007 :
The city design we have is a big 8ft by 8ft square[outer-most]. Then we have a smaller square within[middle], and the smallest square in the [center].
Looks like this except its only 3 squares inside: http://www.groovy-t.com/prodimages/small/squares-in-squares.gif
So where should the sections be placed?
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You could try various configurations in SimCity and see which works best.
Having each section as a ring is probably not the most effective design, but if you have to have a placement per square, then industrial in the center, commercial in the middle and residential outside.
Industrial in center is probably most efficient for traffic control. You want your residential as far away as possible from the industrial and having the commercial in between means the maximal exposure for advertisement for the stores.
Do you want to mention the scale? How many blocks?
Actually, you shouldn’t have three areas isolated this way.
The industries should be controlled and clean so that people can live near them reducing commuting cost and polution.
Do you consider commercial to include all service, retail and wholesale outside of industrial? Isolating retail from people leads to isolated shopping centers. More people work in service (repairs, lawyers, banks, etc.) these days than in retail, wholesale and industrial.
Model cities (of which there are a couple of dozen) that attempted to divide up cities this way did not work well, especially those that attempted to isolate from industrial so the people would commute creating a beautiful but poorly mixed residential/commercial area.