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Re: Residential and Commercial balance?
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:04:47 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek writes:

Well, most industries are far larger than houses and employ more people than
live in a typical house. So you can argue that there ought to be a lot more
houses (even factoring out apartments).

But houses by the millions are boring, so if you want an interesting layout,
skew the proportion in the interesting direction...

++Lar

I agree.  However, you can sometimes get around the skew by building an
interesting apartment complex in your city layout, or have taller buildings
with living space on top of street level stores.


-Dave
www.bricktannia.com



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(...) Well, most industries are far larger than houses and employ more people than live in a typical house. So you can argue that there ought to be a lot more houses (even factoring out apartments). But houses by the millions are boring, so if you (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)

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