Spacing Out
This is a hard question to answer. I think it really depends on the building. Some buildings look great sharing land, while others get their own space. If suggest spending some time in the showcase ...
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djcenturio629 wrote:
How much land do you give your houses, shops, gardens etc?
Is one piece of land enough or do you use more depending on cost of land?
I base mine on (my perception of) real life. Shops are in strip malls, side-by-side. Residential areas of the average suburb have houses with a modicum of space between them, and yards approximately the size of the home. (Eg, the home takes up about half of the property area.)
Residences of the extremely wealthy take up huge expanses of land, and command complete privacy from neighbors, and are set back from the road, isolated from the sights and sounds of the riffraff. Factories and large businesses take up more space (need parking for large numbers of customers and employees.)
