>>17799140Cities can work however. The best example is a 1950's sized small town, take the fake town from Back to the Future. A central point with some merchant areas, a library, town hall, places to gather, dense housing, and then no more.
The key is in limiting the size of these things, and bringing back the city-state. Draw a set of concentric circles on a map, there's your zoning. Center is town with sidewalks and city hall and drug store and such. First ring is dense apartments, second row houses, third suburbia, 4 rural, 5th (and the largest, perhaps thickest) is farm/raw land. At the end it's touching another city-state's zoning circles and the process begins again - with great separation between the dense areas, and the ability for different flavors of town to spring up because of the inability to sprawl all together into a megacity.
